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...that Texans boast. It was probably a Texan who was so tall that he had to climb a ladder to shave; it was undoubtedly his brother who was so small that it took two men and a boy to see him. So when they heard that Hugh Roy Cullen gave away upwards of $100 million one night last week, Texans recognized a true son of the Lone Star State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: A Man So Rich | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Sixty-five-year-old Roy Cullen started life as a $3-a-week underling in the office of a San Antonio cotton broker. In 1911, he switched to real estate and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: A Man So Rich | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Like legendary Paul Bunyan, Roy Cullen found a way to make money out of dry fields. Paul Bunyan had hitched his blue ox, Babe, to a dry hole, pulled the hole out of the ground, and sawed it up for pestholes. Cullen's method was simpler -and more effective. When he saw a dry hole he just drilled deeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: A Man So Rich | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...rard, 65, professor of literature, transplanted Frenchman, prolific critic and author (Art for Art's Sake, Preface to World Literature, France, a Short History, some 14 other volumes); and Thomas Addis, 64, Scotland-born authority on Bright's disease and other kidney ailments, winner of the Scottish Cullen Prize "for the greatest benefit done to practical medicine in the past four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye Now | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...Louis Woman (book by Arna Bontemps & the late Countee Cullen; music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Johnny Mercer; produced by Edward Gross) shows something more than musicomedy's aspirations but something less than its appeal. An all-Negro period yarn of the '90s, it pins its faith almost entirely on its story and its music. But the story is too trite and trumped-up to deserve such prominent treatment. The music, which therefore needs to be specially engaging, is no more than agreeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Play in Manhattan, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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