Word: roughnecking
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Died. William August Bartholomae, 70, California oilman, rancher and yachtsman, a onetime drillfield roughneck who hit oil on a smidgeon of unwanted California land after World War I, branched into gold mining, cattle ranching, real estate, becoming so rich (estimates run all the way up to $40 million) that his third wife last year won a $5,500,000 divorce settlement; of knife wounds in the abdomen (police booked Bartholomae's brother's Spanish-born sister-in-law on suspicion of murder); in the kitchen of his $500,000 mansion at Newport Beach, Calif...
Divorced. William August Bartholomae, 69, onetime California oil-field roughneck, who struck it rich on an odd lot of unwanted land, becoming one of the state's richest men with oil, mining and ranching interests; by Third Wife Sara Bartholomae, 47; on grounds of cruelty; after 19 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. Settlement...
...twins-Hayley plays both-know nothing about each other; their parents separated when they were babies. Hayley the First is a demure Bostonian who lives with her mother (Maureen O'Hara); Hayley the Second is a rowdy Californian who ranches with her roughneck father (Brian Keith). The girls meet at camp, tumble to the situation, and switch places. At summer's end, Hayley the Second gets her first look at Boston and mother, and Hayley the First sees her dad. But dad is about to marry a proprietary blonde (Joanna Barnes) who plans to send her stepdaughter...
During a strike in Le Havre in 1926, a 16-year-old French Communist roughneck named Roger Riou battled cops in the streets. Thrown into reform school, seemingly incorrigible, he soon taught the Marxist gospel to 100 other inmates and then led them in an unsuccessful attempt to escape. That episode landed him in solitary confinement, manacled wrist and ankle. Last week, on Haiti's Ile de la Tortue (Turtle Island), Roger Riou was no longer fighting cops. Instead, he was ministering to the people's spiritual needs and physical ailments. The ex-kid brawler...
...Driving Me Crazy. There is a growling, brassy quality under even the floating notes, and the words and phrases are often bitten off or stretched into a kind of slurring leer, but at her best Singer Reese projects a vivid image-that of a tender roughneck who wears her heart square on her agitated chest, where it belongs...