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Easy Work. Wildcatting for oil, Jacobsen likes to say, is the easiest thing in the world: "You can make millions and millions. All you need is a checkbook-and money in the bank. You can get a competent drilling contractor to do all the work for you and you wouldn't even have to go near the place you were drilling. All you'd have to do is pick the place to drill...
...picture manages to capture some of Rogers' genial joshing and his common and uncommon sense on national and international affairs. (Samples: "Our foreign deals are like an open book, especially a checkbook"; "The U.S. never lost a war or won a peace.") To bolster its just-folks plot, the movie throws in a couple of production numbers from the Ziegfeld Follies, in which Rogers starred. But it is in Will Rogers Jr.'s performance that his father comes most alive on the screen: the familiar slouch with hands jammed in pockets, the unruly forelock, the sheepish grin...
...that our parents-of great courage-could say to us: 'Opportunity is all about you. Reach out and take it. Do you want to go to school? Well, go. What are you afraid of? Do you have to stand around until someone comes along with a fat checkbook and takes care of every possible care or difficulty you can have in that school?' They didn't believe so. They were thrifty, they were economical, and they were honest...
...first gift to the university was a modest one-$350,000 for a liberal arts building. Later, he opened his checkbook to pay for a new engineering laboratory. The check he wrote happened to be $100,000 more than was needed. "Keep it," Cullen told the university, "and raise salaries...
...fill out the boss's income-tax form, what to do when his wife's checkbook doesn't balance, whom to notify when he dies. ¶How to dress in the office ("Grecian sandals are not appropriate"). ¶How to begin a letter to the Lord Chief Justice of England ("My dear Lord Chief Justice"), and to the Commissioners of the City of Buffalo ("Sirs"). ¶ How to brush off a begging letter to the boss ("I wish I could, but I can't. I have come to the sad conclusion that I am carrying...