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Lolling. Odium, who lives on a ranch at Indio, Calif., spends long hours in his swimming pool to ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. A long telephone extension permits him to conduct business right from the pool. From there, Odium this year has been reshuffling Atlas' holdings to tighten up control and to trim expenses. Last week, as Atlas announced plans to combine two of its biggest properties, Barnsdall Oil and Ogden Corp., into the Barnsdall Oil Co., Odium reported that the asset value of Atlas shares was again on the increase. During the first half of this year...
...After circling over Indio, Calif. since Nov. 20, Endurance Flyers Dick Riedel and Bill Barris discovered that their Aeronca plane's carburetor was icing, were forced to land after spending 568 hours and 47 minutes aloft. The endurance record (set by two Long Beach, Calif. flyers in 1939) still stood at 726 hours...
...more than that. He is the dark-skinned Indian boy who 41 years ago brought even haughty Spaniards roaring to their feet when he fought on the same program with the great Juan Belmonte and José ("Joselito") Gómez y Ortega. Race-proud Spaniards called him El Indio, made him fight harder than the others for the reward of ears and tail...
...presents Maria Felix as a schoolma'am an award for her fight against illiteracy. For Alemán, who knew Hollywood well in pre-presidential days and who is now anxious to give Mexican movies a hand up, it would be a screen debut. Said famed Director "El Indio" Fernandez last week, readying camera, lights and greasepaint: "I'm sure the President won't need any coaching, but if he does, you can bet that I'll give...
This week Director Fernandez expected to fly to Hollywood (if the U.S. would forgive & forget his deportation record) to talk over plans for another U.S.-Mexican collaboration-this time with Director John Ford. He also wants to see Mrs. Goodrich about a part in a new Fernandez film. Said Indio: "If I see Goodrich I will say, 'This is nothing but a business proposition-my mind is clean...