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...1920s he joined Galveston's W. L. Moody III, whose father was one of the world's richest men, in creating a mammoth oil, gas and sulphur empire. Cooking deals like popcorn, Odie was one of the founders of Texas Gulf Producing Co., which has large oil reserves in the Gulf states, was one of the powers in what is now Freeport Sulphur Co. He and Moody developed and owned the famed Hugoton natural-gas field in southern Kansas and Oklahoma-"a deal," says a friend, "that has never been equaled in the world -it was worth...
...already has another 36 shows booked into its halls at rentals ranging from $10,000 to $23,000 for the average two week periods. Next winter Detroit's automakers will hold their first big industry-wide auto show since 1940, spend millions to introduce 1957 models. Hardware dealers, popcorn concessionaires, plastic makers, the hotel and oil industries are all piling in. There will also be a big sewing exhibit, a National Baby & Child Show and an International Sanitation & Maintenance Show this year. All told, the Coliseum expects that rental and concession fees alone will amount to more than...
...Days That Shook The World does not quiver as much as it did in the twenties, but is still a master-piece of photography. Although silent, there are enough explosions, tramping feet, and moving lips to hold interest. At the Brattle. No popcorn...
...Benny Goodman Story has Steve Allen puffing his cheeks and Goodman making the music. The music is good. So is the popcorn...
...book's hero-heel is Blade Reade, a middle-aging boy genius who tries to keep his ulcer quiet and his three telephones busy. Blade paces the "deep veldt" of his office carpet during "Thinktime" and his mind crackles with "hot intuitive ideas busting loose like popcorn over a fast fire." As chairman of the Voters' Service Committee of the Republican Party, Blade needs a hot intuitive idea that will elect an amiable Midwestern boob named Henry Clay Adams...