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Welburn Mayock, a down-to-earth, oil-rich Los Angeles lawyer who ran the Truman-Barkley clubs and was general counsel to the National Committee. He gave $4,500. A longtime friend of and attorney for Ed Pauley, Mayock helped scotch Henry Wallace's candidacy at the 1944 convention, served as assistant to then-treasurer Pauley. The President, like most of his friends, calls him "Judge," but it is a misnomer. "I never claimed it wasn't," Mayock explains, "but I got tired of explaining it was a phony myself." He maintains law offices in Washington...
William Helis, known in New Orleans as "The Golden Greek." Beginning as an immigrant dishwasher in New York, Helis hit it rich in California and Louisiana oil. Helis was the biggest money backer of Earl Long. In 1939 he was involved in the "hot-oil" scandals with New Orleans' former mayor and Huey Long henchman, Robert Sidney Maestri. Helis is a one-man lobby for Greece (he is a supporter of the royalist faction), once owned drilling concessions for the entire nation. He keeps a racing stable in New Jersey. During the war, he turned his yacht over...
Mamma Erato has other children. Her pretty twin daughters Fofo and Sasa married rich right-wingers and live comfortably in a fashionable quarter of Athens, where they do their best to forget their relationship to the rebel chieftain. Another son, 34-year-old Mimi, lives in the dingy room with Erato, but he is a poor substitute for Nico. Vacillating, weak-chinned Mimi is often sullen and bitter because the government kicked him out of his longtime job in a local bank when he refused to sign an anti-Communist affidavit, but Mamma Erato has no use for his tiresome...
...Highway to Build. Though the Oriente's fertile soil could easily feed food-short Bolivia, the government in La Paz long neglected the rich lowlands. Only lately, with their tin starting to peter out, have Bolivians begun to look eastward. Even now, they are interested less in the Oriente's crops than in the oil that stands in golden surface pools in the swamps near Santa Cruz...
Popular errors that Dr. Lawrence dispels include the notion that acne comes from too much or too little sexual activity (acne victims sometimes rush into marriage as a curative measure), too rich blood, venereal diseases, bacterial infections ; that it can be cured by sulphur & molasses or other home remedies, or by medicated soaps, hormone creams, special massages and packs, cleansing creams and oily lotions, kidney or liver pills, tonics, or special herbs...