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Washington Henry Ochsner, a Swiss-born oil geologist, died in 1927 at 47 in a Portland, Ore. hotel, alone and virtually penniless. Behind he left a widow, two former wives, three children, a host of disgruntled backers and oil royalty rights on 2,538 gullied, sun-scorched acres in California's Kettleman hills. The year after Ochsner died, pay sands were struck in those hills, opening up one of the country's major oil pools. From the Ochsner acres nearly $1,000,000 of royalties have already accumulated, and estimates of the eventual total run as high...
...early as 1541 when Spain's Hernando de Soto explored the Mississippi River Valley, but it was not until after the Civil War that the nuts were used for much besides feeding hogs. First commercial sheller-dealer of any importance in the U. S. was a Swiss-born cake and candy maker, Gustave Antonio Duerler of San Antonio, Tex., who, in 1882, found a market for a few barrels of pecan meats he shipped East on a gamble. Today one out of every five nuts eaten in the U. S. is a pecan. Only peanuts and walnuts are more...
...their mantillas fighting for title to a bullfighter. One nobleman explained his kindness to his servants by inquiring: "How can I be sure my real father is not among them?" There were riots every day in Madrid except during the Siesta. Across the Pyrenees in France, Voltaire and a Swiss-born neurotic called Jean Jacques Rousseau were mouthing strange phrases that were to mean a revolution, Napoleon, and the conquest of Spain. But in Madrid and throughout the land they reveled and stabbed and hoped only to see the morrow. Francisco Goya was born in 1746 of a remotely noble...
...Bishops, Senators, wrestlers, criminals . . . everybody give psychiatrists their brains for dissecting after death," last week suggested Professor Adolf Meyer, Johns Hopkins' famed Swiss-born psychiatrist. Professor Meyer. 67, a bearded didactic Zwinglian* called it "a crime against civilization that we let any brain pass unexamined when it has done its life work...