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Even by Texas standards. Billie Sol Estes stood out as a spectacular example of a man who got very rich very quick. At 37, he owned or was a partner in some three dozen businesses, including grain-storage facilities, a fertilizer firm, cotton plantations, a newspaper and even a funeral parlor. Estimates of his fortune ran as high as $150 million...
Adlai Stevenson and other Democratic notables. The Kennedy picture was inscribed: "For Billie Sol Estes, with appreciation and warm regards." Still friendlier was the inscription on the photo of Texas' liberal Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough: "To a great friend, a true Texan, a grand American-Billie Sol Estes, of Pecos. with warm appreciation...
...Hole. Billie Sol, as everybody in Pecos called him, had humble beginnings. A farmer's son. he was born and raised in the dusty hamlet of Clyde, Texas. Despite his worldly success, his huge barbecue parties, his orchid-colored Cadillac, he retained many traits from his Bible belt upbringing. He never drank, never uttered a cuss word, frequently delivered sermons as a Church of Christ lay preacher. He had a rule that, except for married couples, males and females (including children) could not swim in his pool at the same time...
...Billie Sol, as it turned out. had a couple of bad habits, too-and one evening last March, FBI agents came to his house and arrested him. Last week he was free on bail, but his empire had collapsed, and he was under indictment on charges of fraud and theft. West Texas was swarming with investigators trying to untangle a web of deceit, fraud and corruption that stretched the 1,500 taut miles to Washington. One major discovery about Billie Sol was that the guesses about the size of his fortune had been fantastically inaccurate; far from being worth...
When the air was finally clear of flying dancers, the audience rose and gave the performers the old Sol Hurok Opening Night Locomotive. The dancers applauded back with enthusiasm. The reviews glowed. Box offices along the company's 16-city cross-continent route rang to the clink of coin. As for Impresario Hurok himself, his restless eye was probably already roving the map of Russia that was included in the official program. A ballet troupe from Monchegorsk, perhaps? Or sword dancers from Pinsk...