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...cold front hit and the year's worst duster began to blow. Winds up to 70 m.p.h. whipped across 120,000 square miles of the Southwest dust bowl, and the earth boiled into black clouds 20,000 feet high in the sky. The dust was so thick that dawn came invisibly; when rain began to fall, tiny mud balls pelted the town of Guymon, Okla. Schools closed, stores shut down, and thousands of farm families listened tensely at their radios as their lands and livelihoods blew away...
...only row as the Cambridge crew, we live as the crew: clad in light blue from dawn until dusk. We wear old flannel bag pants and padded blazers during the day and dress for dinner. Studs are standard equipment. Special light blue blazers and white flannels complete the evening habit...
...time playmate, sometime Actress Kay Williams Spreckels, fifth ex-wife of Sugar (Honey Dew) Daddy Adolph Spreckels II, lined up for morning chow. With other early risers of the Desert Riders, oldest galloping group in those parts, they had just taken a constitutional in the saddle as dawn peeped over the oasis...
...book before, rates attention for other reasons as well. He has written this novel from that dark night of the soul where, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "it is always three o'clock in the morning." To the small army of "beat generation" characters in The Recognitions, dawn never comes...
With $90,000 from his father and another oilman, Crawford sank his first shantytown well. It was a modest producer. He sank two more, found more oil, and started his fourth well. At dawn on New Year's Day, after playing trumpet with Horace Heidt's band in Los Angeles, Crawford hustled to the drilling site. He arrived in time to see his drillers bring in a gusher from a new formation-and start a rush of oilmen to Huntington Beach...