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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shale company. In 1919, Anglo-Iranian (then called the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.) took over his father's company and "Willie came with the shale." He moved up to a directorship, then became Anglo-Iranian's deputy chairman. In 1931 he helped form Shell-Mex & B.P., Ltd. to market Anglo-Iranian and Shell products in Britain, and set up the Consolidated Refineries, Ltd. subsidiary which built such huge Anglo-Iranian installations as the refinery at Haifa. Fraser moved into, the top job when Sir John Cadman died...
Married. Greer Garson, 40, redhaired, green-eyed cinemactress (Mrs. Miniver, Madame Curie),; and Colonel E. E.("Buddy") Fogelson, 48, Texas rancher-millionaire; she for the third time, he for the second; in Santa Fe, N. Mex...
Century of Progress. In Alamogordo, N. Mex., after a 67-mile walk from his desert home, 115-year-old David Romero gave his secret of healthy longevity: "I never got married...
Mont., Ariz., Col., New Mex...
That sign, tacked up on Painter Peter Hurd's studio door, is slim protection from the friends, neighbors, admirers and tourists who frequently overrun his ranch. Last week some of the visitors were being diverted to the nearby town of Roswell, N. Mex. by the new Hard wing of the Roswell Museum. It contained 31 of his lithographs and six of his spacious, sharply detailed paintings. The collection had been financed by an anonymous California donor, who planned to add more Kurd pictures each year...