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...Records. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), the world's biggest oil company, was close behind. Despite a drop in demand, Chairman Eugene Holman estimated second-quarter earnings at $188 million, somewhat below the first quarter but still enough to push the company's first-half net to an alltime peak of $425 million, some $33 million better than 1956. On a smaller scale, California's Superior Oil Co. did even better, with nine-month (ending May 31) profits of $15.7 million (equal to $37.20 per share), for a 412% jump over the previous year...
...architect who works for Vahan Rabadab Associates ("All Rabadab buildings looked like banks of file cabinets with the drawers open"); a proletarian scowler ("No thanks, I don't usually bathe until Saturday night"); a divorcee with an "I'm-a-dangerous-woman voice cribbed from old Libby Holman records"; a bristling general "who had never heard a gun fired in earnest since the Boxer Rebellion"; and a "king-sized Shirley Temple...
Died. Jesse Holman Jones, 82, Texas tycoon, big builder (of Houston skyscrapers), publisher (Houston Chronicle; circ. 596,000), longtime (1932-45) head of Reconstruction Finance Corp., wartime (1940-45) U.S. Secretary of Commerce; in Houston. As overlord of RFC and a dozen other New Deal agencies in the Depression '30s, massive (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.), granite-faced Jesse Jones saved many a bank, railroad and factory from disaster, made money for the Government by insisting, with a small-town banker's care, on rock-sound collateral before certifying a federal loan. Jones was dropped by Franklin...
...best chance to take over his title. It is as good a guess as any, and considering the source, perhaps the best. The list of heavyweight contenders is a list of palookas. Hurricane Jackson, an ill wind from New York, Bob Baker, a pudge-pot from Pittsburgh, Johnny Holman a clown from Chicago, are the three top contenders, and a good kangaroo ought to be able to outwit any one of them for the title. Aside from Moore, the only real fighter with the skill to take over is another brilliant, but young (21), light heavyweight named Floyd Patterson...
...with the Gun (Goldwyn Jr.; United Artists) has all the splendid cardboard heroics of the classic western. Sheridan City is so terrorized by a villainous rancher named Dade Holman that the panicky citizens hire flint-eyed, flint-faced Robert Mitchum to civilize the community. Inside of ten minutes, four of Holman's badmen are being measured for coffins. Casually holstering his guns, Town-Tamer Mitchum suggests burying at least two of them out on the wild prairie, because "Sheridan City's too small to have such a big cemetery...