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...UPTON SINCLAIR...
When aging Harry F. Sinclair stepped out of the presidency of the Sinclair Oil Corp. in early 1949, his company was held in small esteem on Wall Street. Over it still hovered some of the onus of Harry Sinclair's jailing for contempt in the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the '20s. And in its later years the company seemed to have developed hardening of the corporate arteries. It lagged behind in expanding its production and oil reserves...
Percy C. Spencer, an ex-Wyoming ranch hand turned lawyer who stepped into Harry Sinclair's shoes, soon had the company prancing like a yearling bronco. Spencer had been the company's general counsel since 1943; he was no expert on production, but he knew how to organize it. He launched Sinclair on a five-year $250 million expansion, picked up some 2,000,000 acres of unproved oil leases, started a big drilling program. To make its 13,500-mile pipeline network even bigger, he put the company to work this year on a new 700-mile...
...Manhattan, CBS announced a new contract policy calculated to out-Hollywood Hollywood. The network signed a five-year contract with Actress Mary (Studio One, Suspense) Sinclair, was negotiating similar contracts with others in an effort to build a CBS star system. Said a network executive proudly: "While they're with us they'll be moored to television-they can't do any Broadway plays or movies...
...Clinton, Conn, as an apprentice. Between walk-on appearances and rounds of scene painting, she studied the Stanislavsky acting technique with Coach Lee Strasberg. "We'd be teapots, poison ivy and other things, for practice," says Barbara, "and I just loved it." She played bits with Ethel Barrymore, Sinclair Lewis and other visiting stars, and at the end of the season she even got a fat part of her own-Amy in Little Women. Says Barbara: "I got damn good notices...