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...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...mystery man behind Facts Forum: Dallas' H. L. (for Haroldson Lafayette) Hunt, 64, who "may be the richest man in America," with an income from oil, natural gas and farmland estimated to be more than $200,000 a day.* Oilman Hunt is so shy of publicity that he is rarely photographed and his name does not even appear in Who's Who in America. He refused to see Reporter Bagdikian, but he did talk to him over the phone and answered some written questions. As a "nonprofit national educational organization," Hunt's Facts Forum is tax exempt...