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Sirs: Please accept my sincere thanks for the interesting story on oil and the intricacies of drilling for the stuff [TIME, April 3]. A lone oil man could be a pretty nice guy, I guess, but I've lived with a good half-dozen ever since joining this battalion two years ago. I believe I have yet to hear any two of them reach an agreement, and I have listened to them screech at each other all the way across the Pacific. The C.O. is one of 'em but his rank doesn't help him when...
Walter Gieseking, one of the world's half-dozen greatest pianists, who has been touring Nazi Germany for several years with enormous success...
...staff family of 15-the regular members of his mess-dine at home nightly. Their day's routine is done, but they stay around to talk after dinner. A half-dozen guests, mostly military, are usually spaced around the dinner table...
Flowers he affectionately calls by their Latin names. He picks bunches of daisies, forget-me-nots, anemones for Lady Anderson's small town house. He takes an enchanted interest in the garden, the one cow, two geese, half-dozen ducks they own. Says Lady Anderson: "He loves that...
...southern Georgia only a half-dozen wells have been drilled, but 8,000,000 acres are already under lease, mostly to big companies like Humble, which have already spent more than $2,000,000 for test drillings. In the little turpentine town of Waycross, near the Florida line, oilmen are so thick that the Chamber of Commerce has taken over the whole second floor of the Ware Hotel to accommodate them-and its own Oil and Gas Committee...