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When Elvis Presley died, 25,000 people gathered outside Graceland in the sweltering Memphis heat. John Lennon's murder drew millions of people to Central Park for a silent vigil. But when Buddy Holly's plane went down in an Iowa cornfield at a little past 1 a.m. on Feb...
In Texas, a neighbor told Holly's mother to turn on the radio. When the news report came out, she screamed and collapsed. In Greenwich Village, Buddy Holly's pregnant wife heard the news on television and suffered a miscarriage the following day, reportedly due to "psychological trauma." In the...
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes By Bryan Burroughs 556 pages; Penguin
3. On how Texas oilmen flaunted their new wealth: "[O]ne oilman wore a hundred-dollar bill as a bow tie; when asked, he would take it off and throw it in the air, then tie another. Another took to riding a pet lion to meet the mailman; yet another...
These four families rose fast and fell hard. Meticulous research culled from courthouse records, archives and interviews with descendants of the Big Four make The Big Rich a page-turning tale with well developed characters that seems boxed up and ready for the silver screen. It's impossible to read...