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Beware, Says Country Cousin...
...Other Oxonian exceptions: Matthew Arnold, Walter Savage Landor, Southey, Swinburne and a second cousin of Reader Hopkins, the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins...
...Musa el Husseini, cousin of Jerusalem's exiled Mufti...
Bill Mellon had started the business in 1901, simply to rescue a $5,000,000 loan which Cousin Andrew Mellon had made on some Texas oil leases. He salvaged the money so well that when he retired at 80 his empire (still 41% owned by the Mellon family) stretched from Venezuela, where only Standard's (NJ.) Creole and Royal Dutch Shell outrank Gulf's Mene Grande, to Kuwait on the Persian Gulf, where Gulf and Britain's Anglo-Iranian share more than 11 billion bbls. of oil reserves. Under him, Gulf got the prospecting rights...
...Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony, Crosby pitches charm, song and the pathos of his wards, resorts to conspiratorial shenanigans with the help of his editor (Robert Keith), his would-be father-in-law (James Barton) and Tone's repressed cousin (Alexis Smith...