Word: wrather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas Oilman Jack Wrather and some well-heeled friends decided to make a contribution to the local Boy Scouts; they spent $22,000 in drilling a well near Longview, struck oil, turned the operation over to the boys. Expected income: $900 a month, plus $125 for Girl Scouts...
Divorced. By Molly O'Daniel Wrather, 24, daughter of bumbling, boisterous Texas Senator W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel: Jack D. Wrather Jr., 28, member of one of Texas' oil-heeled families; after more than five years of marriage, two children; in San Antonio...
...hunt has been one of the quietest and best-organized in history. Its headquarters is a big, bemapped office in the Geological Survey in Washington. Its chief strategists are a Mutt & Jeff pair: lean, untidy Survey Director William Embry Wrather, who looks like a country schoolteacher, and chubby, loud-tied Chief Geologist Gerald Francis Loughlin. Since 1938 the Survey has sent forth hundreds of prospecting parties to promising fields from Alaska to Latin America. They have hunted for copper in Vermont, bauxite in Alabama, zinc in Wisconsin, oil in Alaska. In the past year alone the geologists have made more...
Born. To Molly O'Daniel Wrather, 20, daughter of Texas Senator Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy'') O'Daniel, and Jack D. Wrather Jr., 23: a daughter: in Dallas. Weight: 9 Ib. 13 oz. Name: Molly O'Daniel Wrather...
...married. The 58-year-old political boss of Atlantic City for three decades took as his bride ex-Showgirl Florence Osbeck, 33. ≤≤ Molly O'Daniel, 19, daughter of Texas' Senator-elect W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, married Oilman Jack D. Wrather Jr., 23, in the executive mansion at Austin. Pappy had invited everybody, but most of the 6,000 who showed up never got inside, ≤≤ Joe Louis was ordered to double his wife's support, pay Marva $200 a week. ≤≤ John Henry Hammond's daughter, Alice...