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...capital of the West Texas oil industry, the town of Midland (pop. 23,000) had an odd distinction; it had never had a boom of its own. The land around Midland had been drilled repeatedly and found wanting. But last week all was changed...
...Reeves looks what he is: an ex-football player. Just short of six feet, he still has a lithe, athletic bearing, no trace of waistline bulge. A broken neck (compression of the fourth cervical vertebra), suffered in the last quarter of his last game as a guard at Midland College at Fremont, still bothers him occasionally and he gets Mrs. Reeves to massage it. To encourage high-school athletics, Dr. Reeves serves (without fee) as physician for the football and basketball teams...
...Midland St. Leger Trial Stakes last week at Birmingham, England, only two horses went to the post. All others had been scratched because the track was dry and hard and the distance, a mile and five-eighths, was punishing. Gordon Richards, Britain's leading jockey, with 163 winners this year, was aboard the favorite, Ridge Wood. The other horse was Courier, ridden by Tommy Lowrey. Each trainer had told his rider to let the other horse set the pace...
Retired General Lucius D. Clay, former U.S. military governor in Germany, got a new civilian assignment: Manhattan bank director. He will serve on the board of the Marine Midland Trust Co. of New York...
...first time in its 52 years, enterprising Dow Chemical Co. had no Dow at its helm. Dr. Willard Henry Dow, killed in a plane crash March 31, had succeeded his father as head of the business founded on a process for extracting bromine from the briny seas under Midland, Mich. Willard Dow had developed enough new products and processes to make the company the fourth biggest U.S. chemical manufacturer (600 products, $171 million gross and $21 million profit in 1948). Last week the directors picked two men to fill Willard Dow's shoes...