Word: richest
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...Richardson, the richest of the new Athenians because of his ocean of oil reserves, jokingly takes credit for starting the boys from Athens on their way years ago. After making his first killing in oil, Richardson drove into town in a block-long Cadillac. "When I left," he says, "all those guys sitting on those benches around the square jumped up and followed me right out of town." Leader of the new Athenians, by general agreement, is Richardson's old crony, Clinton Williams Murchison, 59, a financial genius who, according to affectionate legend...
...Texas fortunes are now founded on oil and the liberal tax provisions that go with it. Samples: ¶Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 65, of Dallas, who got his start running one of the tables in an Arkansas gambling house, is probably rivaled only by Sid Richardson for the title of richest man in the U.S. Richardson figures that Hunt's production is higher, but that his own oil reserves are bigger (estimated at as high as 750 million bbls.). Hunt, a lone wolf who hardly knows the new Athenians, uses his oil wealth to spread his far-right views through...
Wealth, of course, is not out of place here, but Schine, certainly one of the richest men in his class, made it so. He lived in a style which went out here with the era of the Gold Coast: and exquisitely furnished room, a valet, a big black convertible equipped with a two-way phone-radio, and a fabulous electronic piano with built-in radio and phonograph. Nobody seems to know exactly what his allowance was while he was here, but he always had plenty of money to spend...
...Vegas, Nev., shooting for one of golf's richest prizes, the $35,000 Las Vegas Open, Art Wall Jr., 30, a pro from Pocono Manor, Pa., banged out rounds of 69-66-70-73, to beat Runners-Up Lloyd Mangrum and Al Besselink by six strokes...
...first an uncompromising romantic and the second a thoroughgoing realist, fortunately had simple tastes to match their small incomes. Ryder used to compare himself to an inchworm revolving on the end of a twig. The fact that he was able to take his time resulted in some of the richest painting ever done. Once, after 18 years of work on a picture, he said hopefully: "I think the sky is getting interesting." Eakins made only $15,000 (the price of a single Eakins canvas today) in all his years of painting, but he did have the appreciation...