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...Shot" & "Ma." Gene Holman was pretty well bound to be an oilman. He was born in Texas, raised in the first excitement of its oil boom. His father, James...
Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), world's biggest oil company, was the natural leader of the group; as Standard's internationally minded president, Eugene Holman, was the one who had a big hand in drafting the breath-taking plans. Jersey Standard and its partners were going to spend upwards of $300,000,000 in the stormy Middle East to bring...
...Deal. In the new hand Holman held, the aces were Socony's Board Chairman Harold Sheets; Henry DeWard Collier, the shrewd, benign-looking board chairman of Aramco, boss of Standard of California; William Starling Sullivan Rodgers, director of Aramco and board chairman of the Texas Co.;Aramco's globe-trotting Vice President James Terry Duce. Their companies produce 22% of the worlds oil. They reached an agreement which, in effect, put Jersey Standard and Socony in Arabia...
...from Egypt, ornate gold-leaf mirrors from Mexico. On weekends, he and his wife, Edith, whom he married while she was a physical-education teacher in Shreveport, La., and their two children, Catherine, 17, and Eugene Jr., 14, go to their 18-acre farm near Greenwich, Conn. There Gene Holman putters around in his garden, trapshoots from his terrace, or has whiskey &water in his trophy house under the stuffed heads of the game that he has shot. He cares so little for night life that he hasn't been in a Manhattan nightclub for two years, says...
...Holman, was a Texas ranch hand who had a local reputation as a "hoss traduh." He settled down with his family in Monahans, whose 35 weather-beaten houses marked only a wider place in the road. While Dad Holman kept a livery stable and feed store, his wife ran a boardinghouse grandiloquently called the "Holman Hotel." Young Gene helped around the hotel and attended the one-room country school...