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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Cameron, 40, struck it rich in Colorado's Rangely oilfield. After drilling 40 productive wells in a row, with an annual income of $600,000 pouring relentlessly on top of his previously oil-won millions, he settled down in Tulsa, Okla. But the new-found leisure bored him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Helen of Tulsa | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Bitter Medicine. Pert, Missouri-born Norma Browning had been putting things to the test-and turning the results into first-rate copy-ever since she got her master's degree in English from Radcliffe College in 1938. Shortly after, she married Photographer Russell Ogg and they settled down to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Woman in Scarlet | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Diagonal Demons. From the pit, Igor Stravinsky's 40-year-old score blazed as never before: Stravinsky himself had cut down the instrumentation from the original no pieces to 55, given the score new warmth, color and compactness. Choreographer George Balanchine had scrapped Fokine's original Russian-folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Wings for Firebird | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Too Good. From Los Angeles, Hilton went shopping in New York. "When I saw all those people in the streets, I didn't see how you could lose money," he says. "And I had to establish myself in New York. I could borrow money from my Texas friends to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The Proud Past. By the time he had bought the Stevens, Hilton was convinced that he also wanted the dignified old Palmer House, which was as dear to the hearts of Chicago's Gold Coast as the Plaza was to New Yorkers. To get it lock, stock and history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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