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...RUSSELL HOLMAN Eastern Production Manager Paramount Pictures Inc. New York City
...graduate, they report, is torch-singer Libby Holman's secretary, while another compiles tax reports for a fiduciary trust company and loves...
...graduation studying geology at the University of Texas and then a hitch as a corporal in the U.S. Signal Corps in World War I. He caught the eye of Wallace Pratt, then Standard's top geologist, who hired Gene to work fin its subsidiary, Humble Oil Co. There Holman again impressed the right person-William Stamps Parish, Humble's president. In a short time he was made boss of Humble's Shreveport office. When Holman asked for "instructions," Parish waved a hand and said: "Just run things...
...knack of smelling out the oil beneath the cracks and domes of the earth, he added the know-how to get it out, rose in Standard like oil in a new field. In 1944, Gene Holman moved into the presidency, now gets $100,000 a year. He took his promotion calmly. On the day he was made president, Mrs. Holman got the news from the excited wife of another Standard official. When Mrs. Holman called Gene, he drawled: "Oh, yes, I meant to tell you about it when I got home...
...running the empire belongs to Holman, plus the eleven-man board of directors, most of whom came up as Holman did, stratum by stratum. The board chairman is Frank W. Abrams, 57, who started in Standard as a draftsman, came up the refining side. The executive committee of the board meets every day with Holman. It is the gusher which produces the policy on Standard's worldwide problems. It is Holman who refines the policy and distributes it. Actually, most of the day-by-day problems are sensibly solved by subsidiaries on the scene. This is partly...