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...Philmont Scout Ranch, a wide-open, 241-sq.-mi. Boy Scout camp in northern New Mexico, 15,000 scouts each year learn to set up tents and brave the elements. Rain and wind, bugs and varmints -- no problem. But bears...
Hosts Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler explore the 130,000-acre Philmont Boy Scout ranch in New Mexico...
...properties during World War I, formed his own Waite Phillips Co. that he sold in 1925 for an estimated $40 million, branched into office buildings, ranching and banks (cofounder of Tulsa's largest, the First National Bank and Trust), then gave his 127,000-acre ranch Philmont and Tulsa's 23-story Philtower to the Boy Scouts, donated most of his other real estate to worthy causes, and retired in 1945 to California...
Waite Phillips is a jut-jawed, beetle-browed Oklahoma oiligarch who likes portmanteau words based on his name. Such are the Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp ("Phillips" riveted to "good turn"), Philmont (his 300,000-acre New Mexico ranch), Philtower and Philcade (his skyscrapers at Tulsa). Oiligarch Phillips last week did a good turn at Tulsa, where the Philbrook Art Center was opened. Its aim: to make culture gush in an oil town once called (by Harper's Magazine) a "cultural Sahara...
After the 18 holes at Philmont, Barnes was 5 up; 18 holes next day at the neighboring Whitemarsh Club gave him a lead of 4 more; a final 36 over the Columbia Course at Washington, D. C., and he had the match?12 up. Loser MacFarlane, natty as ever, had played pretty bad golf. Barnes had been better; in fact, he had made a great many holes...