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...drops to horse collars. (Mills's mother, 77, still helps run the store.) Later on, Ardra Mills acquired a cotton gin and an interest in the local bank. Wilbur worked in the store during his boyhood, but early in life he was struck with awed admiration of William A. Oldfield, the bouncy, genial Congressman from the district. In his travels around his constituency, Oldfield frequently visited Kensett and stopped at the Mills store. "I was talking about running for Congress by the time I was ten," Mills recently recalled. Oldfield was a member of Ways and Means?so young Mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: An Idea on the March | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...most U.S. newspapers and magazines have no photo of Hughes less than a decade old. Hughes maintains offices in Houston and Hollywood, but seldom visits either. Instead he operates through a telephone-message center which is manned 24 hours a day. Anyone who wants to see Hughes must call OLdfield 4-2500 in Hollywood and state his business. If Hughes deigns to answer-which he almost never does-he is more likely than not to set an appointment for 2 a.m. on a remote street corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Come In, Come In, Wherever You Are! | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...ANNA KARENINA. A serialized adaptation by H. Oldfield Box. (BEC) (End of Series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WGBH Programs For The Week | 11/10/1959 | See Source »

...BARNEY OLDFIELD-Colonel, U.S.A.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...Ralph de Palma, 73. Italian-born auto speed king, winner of the 1915 500-mile Indianapolis Memorial Day race (in a Mercedes, averaging 89.84 m.p.h.) and of two AAA national championships (1912, 1914). who drove against such old-time racing greats as Eddie Rickenbacker, Tommy Milton, Ray Harroun, Barney Oldfield; of cancer; in South Pasadena. Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

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