Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Hedy Lamarr, 39, Vienna-born cinemactress (Ecstasy); and millionaire Texas Oilman W. Howard Lee, 45; she for the fifth time (her previous marriages: to Austrian Industrialist Fritz Mandl, Hollywood Writer-Producer Gene Markey, Cinemactor John Loder, Nightclub Owner Ernest Stauffer), he for the second; in New York City...
HOLLYWOOD'S Eagle Lion Studios, Inc., which has been ailing for years, will be the first movie studio to convert entirely to TV. A West Coast syndicate (among the directors: Oilman Edwin Pauley and Broker Daniel F. Reeves, president of the Los Angeles Rams football team) bought Eagle Lion for $1,100,000, will change the name to First National Studios...
Over the past year, it has become quite clear the Post is a "McCarthy paper." Led by its new owner, John Fox '29, multi-millionaire oilman and financial wizard, the Post has not only joined the Senator's crusade against Communism, but started crusades of its own: to ban books from Boston's libraries, prevent the appointment of James B. Conant as U. S. High Commissioner in Germany, and unseat the management of Harvard University. To accomplish his purposes, Fox has accepted severe financial losses, for his competitors can offer advertisers morning and afternoon papers for the price...
...Maja and Two Toreros, its gaily clad figures oddly accented by the sinister tones of its wooded background. Under Kress conditions, Houston would not have gotten the pictures unless they could be displayed in an air-conditioned gallery. New air conditioning was contributed by rich, young (40) Oilman John Blaffer. Said Blaffer recently: "I'm a whisky and trombone man myself. [But] Texas is reaching an artistic and cultural stage comparable to New York...
Despite the heat of Texas, Stanley Marcus has personally sold $5,000,000 worth of mink coats, and he claims that the store sells more than any other store on earth. But he once refused to sell an oilman a mink coat for his 16-year-old daughter starting school in the East because it would not be appropriate, instead persuaded him to buy a $295 muskrat. He also sees to it that Neiman's stocks many items his customers might need in an emergency, e.g., a set of Steuben crystal plates with Mexico's crest "because sooner...