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...faze him. Said he: "I've had experience in road construction and furniture manufacturing, and there's a lot in common between those two and oil. They all use heavy machinery." That seemed to satisfy investors anxious to get in with a possible challenger to oil-rich Clint Murchison. Williams soon collected more than $800,000 from some 100 to 300 investors, much of it from "people my daddy knew...
...first Clint Hester was convinced that his son was alive somewhere in the mountains. To help in his search, he got hold of the classified flight plan of the lost B-24 and the position reports that it had radioed back. The pilot's last call, Hester learned, indicated that the plane was then flying somewhere near the town of Lone Pine, twelve miles east of Mount Whitney. In the Lone Pine area he began a search that continued for 14 years, halting only when the winter snows blocked the trails, resuming again in the spring...
...some adolescent reason that The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield would have understood, Clint Williams ponders suicide. "Of course, if I end up in some lousy place like Hell," he reflects in his diary, "it would be a miserable mistake. The thing I am gambling on is that after death people become automatically ghosts, and possess thereby complete freedom of movement. ADVANTAGES: I could follow Berry-berry around from place to place...
...Both Clint-who decides against becoming a ghost, after all-and his roving older brother, Berry-berry, are members of the Williams family, as splendid a set of oddballs as has appeared in U.S. writing since J. D. Salinger's more eccentric creations. Clinton, who is 14 as the story opens, has just skipped school for 57 consecutive days. He sits around at the Aloha Sweet Shop writing compulsively in his notebooks whatever he sees and hears. This includes his parents' conversations, on which he eavesdrops, and whatever interests him in the family mail that he opens. During...
...Berry-berry runs too deep. When his girl becomes pregnant, he clears out and hits the road again, carelessly denying blame for the tragedy that follows. Yet the short vacation he took from his inner evil created something of value. Having tasted the richness of family love, Clint and his parents are not likely to turn away from it again...