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People who thought Harry Ford Sinclair would retire to the background when his company merged with Prairie Oil and became Consolidated Oil Corp. did not know what energy there is left in the 56-year-old, broadfaced, clamp-mouthed tycoon...
...Star Spangled Banner" is "Anacreon in Heaven." It is "The Eyes of Texas." There was a president of the University of Texas [William L. Prather-ED.], a generation ago, whose pet admonition to the undergraduates was, "Remember, the eyes of Texas are upon you." A collegian [John Lang Sinclair- ED. J to express irreverent student sentiment toward the repetitious phrase, wrote certain words to a popular air, and loudly a group of young men-keeping themselves well back in the shadows to avoid identification-serenaded the president with them one night. They harmonized : The eyes of Texas are upon...
...modern operator of those old-fashioned mills of God which grind so notoriously slowly and even more notoriously small. Author Rothermell in his 14th novel (his first 13 he destroyed) pulverizes his hero to the vanishing point. The somewhat grisly story, which owes debts to Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith, he tells with a workmanlike resolution oddly contrasted with his two chief characters' feckless attitude of laissez faire...
Authentic? When a premier "explodes." speaking his real mind incautiously to a journalist, his henchmen have to tidy up. Thus, after the late, great Premier Nikola Pashitch of Jugoslavia "exploded" to Correspondent Dorothy Thompson (now Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) it was denied not only that he had spoken as quoted but that he had ever seen her in his life. Last week the Italian Foreign Office called II Duce's statements as quoted by the Daily Express "so obviously absurd as to be unworthy of an official denial...
...Offer for Richfield. James A. Talbot, onetime chairman of California's Richfield Oil Co., and two other former high executives of the company last week spent their fifth week in jail, serving for grand theft. Had they picked up a paper they might have read that Consolidated Oil Corp, (Sinclair-Prairie combine) was offering $18,000,000 par value 6% preferred stock for Richfield, which has been in receivership for 17 months. If the deal is acceptable to Richfield bondholders and the consolidated 6% stock is issued, it will probably sell to yield the same return as Consolidated's present...