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Arrogant and superstitious, Harry Sinclair liked to drill in cemeteries or places where blackjacks grew, created a $700 million empire.* Haroldson L. Hunt, who now commands a $600 million empire, was a professional gambler, writes Author Knowles, who got started in oil with an Arkansas lease that he won in a poker game, struck a 15-million-bbl. field in Louisiana after a poker-playing pal had a dream that it contained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Greatest Gamblers | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...Married. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 68, hawk-faced, publicity-shy Texas oil multimillionaire; and blue-eyed onetime Stenographer Ruth Ray Wright, 41; both for the second time; in Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Facts Forum, the most expensive personal propaganda mill in the U.S., came to a halt last week. Launched five years ago by Dallas' Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 67, whose oil, natural-gas and farmland interests give him an income of $200,000 a day, Facts Forum billed itself as a "nonpartisan, nonpolitical educational organization." But in its monthly Facts Forum News (reported circ. 100,000), a clutter of radio and TV shows, e.g., Reporters' Roundup, Topic of the Week, and widely distributed "public-opinion" polls, Hunt's nonprofit-and tax-free-foundation promoted a far-right, McCarthyist line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lost Cause | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project: a $5,000,000 resort hotel in Nassau). But by & large, the big Texas fortunes are now founded on oil and the liberal tax provisions that go with it. Samples: ¶Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 65, of Dallas, who got his start running one of the tables in an Arkansas gambling house, is probably rivaled only by Sid Richardson for the title of richest man in the U.S. Richardson figures that Hunt's production is higher, but that his own oil reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The New Athenians | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...richest men in the U.S. (estimated daily income: $200,000), Texas Oilman Haroldson Lafayette Hunt has already pushed into radio and TV with his nationwide Facts Forum programs (TIME, Jan. 11). He also puts out a monthly house-organ Facts Forum News, which goes free to a mailing list including Congressmen, radio-TV stations, newspapers, commentators, etc. Last week word got out that Oilman Hunt had bigger publishing ambitions. To Manhattan he had sent a representative to try to buy two big national magazines, monthly Coronet (circ. 3,565,122) and biweekly Collier's (circ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hunting Magazines | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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