Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hunt, wife of Texas' multimillionaire oilman, had to take second-night seating.) To his dazzled guests, Mr. Stanley showed $4,500,000 worth of new wares, including $500,000 worth of furs, $350,000 worth of dresses (three Charles James models were priced at $2,000 each), and $3,500,000 Neiman-Marcus' sales soared. Many of the guests had brought lavishly even before the show, just to be sure they had the proper things to wear on opening night...
...governor, Tobey uncovered a scandal (the widespread practice of corporal punishment) in a New Hampshire asylum for delinquent girls and deposed the institution's board chairman. In 1933 he went to Congress, moved up to the Senate in 1939. When Senator Tobey blocked the appointment of Oilman Edwin Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy, Harry Truman wrote him an angry letter, scrawled "Come and see me" across the bottom. "Who does he think he is?" sputtered Tobey. "Mae West...
This month a syndicate headed by a Texas oilman offered Steen $5,000,000 for his property; last week he turned it down, is angling for a deal for $10 million with another group. Says Charlie Steen: "I don't want to build a financial empire, or become any kind of a big entrepreneur -I'm not cut out for it. I'm just a geologist and prospector, and that's what I want to be-although now I can do my prospecting in a limousine...
Marriage Revealed. Ethel Merman, 44, trumpet-voiced songstress of stage & screen (Call Me Madam); and Robert Forman Six, 45, oilman president of Continental Air Lines; he for the second time, she for the third (her second marriage, to American Weekly Publisher Robert D. Levitt, ended in divorce last year); in Mexicali, Mexico, on March...
Permission was given, and Dr. Baker used the analogy, along with a lantern slide of TIME'S cover picture of Oilman Jacobsen...