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...governor of Texas, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), dark & handsome Allan Shivers has been widely regarded as an efficient administrator, but not as a fighter. "Allan has no affection for lost causes," says one of his friends. "He likes to win." Manager of one of Texas' richest private agricultural empires, the John H. Shary Enterprises, built up by his father-in-law, Shivers is a natural spokesman of anti-Truman Texas farmers and cattlemen, but he has squirmed uneasily at the possibility that he might have to lead his party in actual revolt against the national ticket. To stiffen...
Oilmen acknowledge Alfred Jacobsen, Amerada Petroleum's president, as king of the explorers. After others had vainly scouted the Williston Basin since the early '20s, Jacobsen last year sank the well that tapped one of the country's richest oil pools. But shrewd Oilman Jacobsen did not rest on the triumph; he already had his seismograph crews roaming north west Alberta in a hunt for new treasure. Oilmen have long guessed that an oil-rich coral-reef formation underlies Alberta's Peace River Basin, about 200 miles northwest of Canada's vast Leduc field...
...Americans made primitive tools from the easily workable material, Thomas Lee, a dedicated digger from Ottawa's National Museum, scrambled up the rocky slope on Lake Huron's Canadian shore to have a look. Half an hour later, he was poking and prodding one of the richest diggings in North America. The forest floor was dotted with crude knives, scrapers, and quartz chips. "I felt drunk," he said. "It looked as though the Indians had heard me coming, dropped everything, and run into the bush...
...slightly bent man with wispy white hair and Santa Claus eyes, Bi Shively has won "scores" of trots and paces. But he had never managed to win the richest harness race of all-the Hambletonian classic, which determines the top three-year-old U.S. trotter. In 1947 he copped the Hambletonian's first heat, but he failed to repeat and take...
Died. Charles Clinton Spaulding, 78, a former slave's son who became one of the richest Negroes in the U.S.; of pneumonia in Durham, N.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...