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...each of J.B.'s conflicts for all it's worth, and his actors seem always aware of what's coming off. Their awareness, furthermore, goes a long way toward making the lines comprehensible to the audience. But there isn't enough of an organic quality to the production. James Thomason's devil trembles on every line William Sinkford's God is comparatively natural and unemotional. And while each of these performances might serve on its own, they shouldn't be part of the same production...
...Billie Sol Estes. Then, for another 50 hours, a jury of two women and ten men (four Negroes) considered the fate of the fertilizer king whose vast, partly imaginary agricultural empire caused national scandal last year. Once, the jurors reported that they were deadlocked. But District Judge Robert E. Thomason refused to declare a hung jury, sent the twelve back to their deliberations with the admonition that "some jury, some time, will have to make a decision in this case...
...waiting wasn't over. Judge Thomason said that he would not pass sentence for two weeks. When he does, Billie Sol could get a maximum of 25 years in prison on the federal charges. He has already been sentenced to eight years in jail on swindling charges brought by the state of Texas...
While the hearings headed deeper into the mystery. El Paso U.S. District Court Judge Robert Ewing Thomason at week's end listened to eight minutes of legal wrangling, swiftly decided that Billie Sol Estes was obviously bankrupt. He ordered foreclosure notices tacked up on everything Billie Sol owns except for the lavish Estes home in Pecos. That same day Billie Sol himself sailed into court, serenely pleaded innocent to a multimillion-dollar federal fraud charge; moments later, his three co-defendants admitted their guilt...
...court-appointed receiver, Harry Moore, said that Estes' own unverified books indicated debts of $38,387,935 and assets of $20,793,155. Estes was ordered to present a plan by June 15 for paying off his creditors. Droll Judge R. Ewing Thomason, 83, looked down at Estes' creditors, found a bit of wry humor in their predicament. "About all you'd have left is the newspaper,'' observed the judge. "But I'm sure you won't need that, with all the publicity you are getting." Billie Sol smiled for the first time...