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...room Fifth Avenue apartment has an international look about it, with paintings from Hungary, France and Germany, chairs and sofa from Lima, rugs from Egypt, ornate gold-leaf mirrors from Mexico. On weekends, he and his wife, Edith, whom he married while she was a physical-education teacher in Shreveport, La., and their two children, Catherine, 17, and Eugene Jr., 14, go to their 18-acre farm near Greenwich, Conn. There Gene Holman putters around in his garden, trapshoots from his terrace, or has whiskey &water in his trophy house under the stuffed heads of the game that...
Ralph got his know-how the hard way. His Spanish-born parents died a few years after their arrival in Mexico City (where Ralph was born in 1908), and, at the age of ten, Ralph turned up in Shreveport, La., having gone along with a Mexican family just for the ride. He did odd jobs, went to public school, drove a taxi, saw the country, became an auto body finisher in Detroit - until his employers found where all the nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit...
...Kingdom. From his headquarters in Dallas' 30-story Mercantile Bank Building, Leo Corrigan surveys a real-estate kingdom which extends from Shreveport, La. through Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and down to the Rio Grande valley. In Dallas alone he operates 28 shopping centers, three skyscrapers, two apartment hotels, four suburban hotels and several hundred apartment houses. With his new buys, Corrigan's holdings are estimated at close to $79 million...
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...over Europe, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with Six Oak Leaf Clusters to his credit; Lehon I. Twarog of New Bedford, Mass, with greatest time in service of the group, including two and a half years in the South Pacific; and Arleigh A. Tison '49 of Shreveport, La., recipient of a Purple Heart for wounds in action...