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...Australian affair. First-seeded Ashley Cooper, 20, faced unseeded Malcolm Anderson, 22. A stocky student who turned down a brace of scholarships at Australian universities to concentrate on tennis, Cooper had been the favorite all week long. Slim, moody Mai Anderson, son of a Queensland cattle rancher, had been playing such mediocre tennis before Forest Hills that he almost missed a berth in the tournament...
Shortly before President Eisenhower took off for his flying inspection tour of the drought-parched Southwest in January, Stanley Walker, onetime Manhattan newsman, now a Texas rancher, turned out a dismal preview of the scene for his old newspaper, the New York Herald Tribune (1956 "was the year the windmills pumped air ... the termites ate the onions"). Last week Walker wrote again, this time with refreshing jubilance. Said he in the Trib: "Texas is turning green . . . like some beautiful, bewildering mirage . . . The reaction to the President's drought-study tour was friendly . . . but the comment was cautious . . . And then...
...Accompanied by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and a retinue of aides and specialists, President Eisenhower was off this week on his flying threeday, six-state inspection tour of drought-stricken areas beyond the Mississippi. What he would find was nicely summed up by Texas Rancher Stanley Walker, longtime (1928-35) city editor of the New York Herald Tribune, in a byliner for his old newspaper. Wrote Walker of the drought belt's 1956: "It was the year the windmills pumped air, the fish died in the dusty ponds, the jack rabbits nibbled prickly pear...
Proud Lawrence ("Tuff") Fullmer taught his muscular son everything he had learned from a short and undistinguished career in the ring (two younger brothers are also learning). Then Tuff turned Gene over to Marv Jenson, a local mink rancher, who had developed the once-promising heavyweight Rex Layne. Young Gene was the kind of willing worker that Jenson had always wanted. Out of high school, he had a job as an apprentice welder, in the repair shop at Kennecott Copper's great open-pit mine, but he still had the energy to get up at five o'clock...
...drilling there. While many of the wells did not produce oil, they had gas. But no one knew whether there was enough gas in the field to make it worthwhile to build a pipeline. Nevertheless, Jackson went to work to get the gas to market, persuaded a Wise County rancher to give him an 18-month option to drill three wells...