Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every week TIME receives dozens of requests for permission to reprint articles or to quote from them. One of the most unusual came recently from Dr. Lenox D. Baker, of the Duke University School of Medicine. He wanted permission to reproduce the cover picture of Oilman Alfred Jacobsen, president of Amerada Petroleum Corp. (Dec. i). Dr. Baker also wanted permission to quote the cover caption in a paper on Marie-Strumpell arthritis that he was to deliver at a meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic
...driving force behind its philosophy ("We will teach anybody anything he wants"), he offered everything from a six-hour course in cafeteria sanitation to an eight-year course leading to a Ph.D. He made friends with Oilman Hugh Roy Cullen, channeled some of Cullen's millions into a vast new campus. He put up buildings for the colleges of law, pharmacy, nursing and optometry, saw the university's enrollment rise...
...National Council for American Education and the defunct American Patriots, Inc. (listed as "subversive" by the U.S. Attorney General), who fought the appointment of Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court in 1939 on the ground that Frankfurter was a Jew; and Genevieve Egan Tillar, sixtyish, widow of millionaire Texas Oilman Benjamin J. Tillar; in Washington...
Would Texans listen to three hours of classical music every night? Charles Barbe, a former symphony conductor turned highbrow disk jockey, thought they would. But, he recalls, "every advertising agency in town told us we were chumps." Finally, the owner of Houston's station KXYZ-FM, Oilman Glenn McCarthy, decided to give Barbe, and Texas, a chance. Both came through with a symphonic bang...
...British Petroleum." The man who bossed the pumps is Anglo-Iranian's chairman, Sir William Fraser, 64, a tough, aloof Scotsman. The son of an oilman, he started out in Scotland's hardscrabble oil-shale business. At 27, when his father died, he took over control of the family company, before long engineered a cooperative marketing deal of all the companies in the ailing industry. This feat so impressed Lord Greenway, head of the British government-controlled Anglo-Iranian (then called Anglo-Persian), that he invited Fraser, at 34, to join his board. Eight years later, as deputy...