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...before he left for Washington, the President did his best to catch up on his visiting. He chatted with Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith and entertained a group of other political friends with a chile-con-carne feast in the hotel penthouse. That evening he got into a tuxedo and escorted Mrs. Truman and Margaret to dinner and an evening reception. The host: suave, bald Blevins Davis, 46, onetime Independence schoolteacher who became a theatrical producer, married aged Heiress Margaret Sawyer Hill (a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon James J. Hill) in 1946 and inherited her fortune when...
...first year Yant was going strong; he had raked in $242,000 and still had considerable acreage left. But the customers finally got restive. Con-Man Yant ended up doing two years at San Quentin...
Last week 154 wells were pumping on one 80-acre tract and 4,000,000 of the pool's estimated 18 million barrels had been sucked out. Though the Placerita boom had knocked the price of crude oil from $2.16 to $1.53 a barrel in Los Angeles, onetime Con-Man Yant and many another were getting rich. Yant was also insisting, to whoever would listen, that the oil find "vindicated" him. "Some people think I'm a scoundrel and some think I'm a wonderful guy-depending on whether they made or didn't make money...
...rally was lit by floodlights and punctuated by firecrackers. Hickman, Jackson, and Albie Booth, former Yale great, appeared to say a few words. Three female cheerleaders also showed up, with rally leaders explaining, "If Harvard con...
Father Feeney's insistence that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church has been the cause of the con- troversy which has gene on between the Archbishop and the Jesuits, on the one hand, and Father Feeney, on the other, since October 1947. Last January Father Feeney was "deprived on his faculties" by Archbishop Cushing. This meant that he could no longer say Mass or hear confession...