Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kirby, heir of one of the founders of the F. W. Woolworth Co. Last year Kirby maneuvered the Murchison brothers out of control of Investors Diversified Services, the nation's largest (assets: $3 billion) complex of mutual funds, and returned control to Alleghany. Encouraged by their wily father, Oilman Clint Murchison Sr., 66, the young Murchisons replied by opening a fight for mastery of Kirby's Alleghany itself...
...People are funny about telephones," mused Oilman J. Paul Getty, the world's richest American, now an expatriate at Sutton Place, his million-dollar Tudor mansion outside London. "They'll come as guests and make long-distance calls all over the world. Even a call to London costs one and three [18?]." Pounding a tight fist on the table, he recalled the attitude of the late William Randolph Hearst. "He didn't like people to use his telephone without telling him about it. Anyone who did that, whether staff or guest, found his luggage packed." That...
...Combining an explosive service with flat, whistling ground strokes, Manhattan Oilman Richard Savitt, 33, returned from retirement long enough to trounce California's Whitney Reed, 6-2, 11-9, 6-3, win his third National Indoor tennis championship, retire the tournament's 25-year-old trophy...
...Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May, apostolic descendant of Mrs. Stotesbury, presided at the Red Cross benefit dance, doing her best to be the Great Galvanizer of a diversifying society. Elsa Maxwell was in town, collecting tidbits, people and invitations. Actress Arlene Dahl, new wife of Rancher-Oilman Christian Holmes, admitted that she was having a fine time trying the supposedly impossible: a walk on the tightrope between cafe society and "real" society...
Rathbone got his interest in oil from his oilman father. Born in Parkersburg, W. Va., he served a short hitch in the Army before graduating from Lehigh University ('21), then went to work as an engineering draftsman in the Baton Rouge refinery of Standard Oil of Louisiana, a Jersey affiliate. He was made refinery manager when he was only 32, so impressed headquarters that four years later he was moved up to president of the affiliate...