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...multimillionaire (real estate, timber, livestock), with an imposing mane of grey hair thatching an elephantine hulk (250 lbs.), Boykin's political stock in trade was a boisterous greeting: "Hello there, Pardner! By God, everything's made for love!" Funny thing was, Boykin really meant it. "God is love, see?" he explained. "He made everything, didn't he? So everything is made for love, get it?" He took genuine pleasure in doing favors for friends. He established a 100,000-acre game preserve in Choctaw County, to which he brought planeloads of folks from Washington and all points...
Maggie Morgan finally found a man to do the job, a 300-lb. hulk named Clarence Collins. One evening Joseph dined by candlelight with his wife at the fashionable Colonial Club. After dinner, at his suggestion, Wilma dropped her husband off downtown, drove on home by herself. When Selby got home his wife was dead, shot twice with a .22-cal. pistol...
Sometime Khan. A forbidding and formidable hulk of a man, Beckmann yet had a sardonic humor about himself. For those who attempted to commiserate with him over the troubles he had seen, Beckmann had a short answer: "I deserve trouble. I myself am a reincarnation of Genghis Khan. I too am rough." To get acquainted with him, Collector May took the simple step of commissioning a portrait. May recalls: "He spent two weeks getting to know me before he even made a sketch. Then there were two sittings of not more than a half hour each. Before he started...
...Heir William L. Harkness's 2O5-ft. yacht Gunilda, which sank in 200 ft. of water off Rossport on Aug. 31, 1911. Coghlan has researched the Gunilda's last hours, is convinced that $250,000 in silverware and jewels are inside the yacht's rotting hulk. After that he hopes to investigate a promising underwater copper deposit off Rossport. He also thinks he can make money retrieving pulpwood "worth at least $2,000,000" that lines the harbor bottom at Thunder Bay (about one pulpwood log in 20 sinks during rafting and water storage). And if none...
Armed with shotguns and carrying provisions, two men stole aboard the 400-ft. hulk of the Liberian tanker African Queen as she lay stranded and shoal-torn ten miles off Ocean City, Md. It was March, and the sea pounded against the rusting hull of the ship, which had run aground three months before. With 200 ft. of her bow ripped away, the 13,800-ton African Queen had been officially abandoned by her owners; now watermen from Ocean City poked about the hulk, prying at loose fittings, taking everything movable that seemed salable. The two newcomers watched patiently until...