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...Orleans for a checkup, startled a crowd of onlookers by relieving himself on the carpet of the hallway outside his Hotel Roosevelt suite. Then he grumpily submitted to an electrocardiogram (diagnosis: "He's in bad shape''), ordered some natty new clothes, received redheaded Blaze Starr, his favorite Bourbon Street stripteaser. at 2:30 a.m., later dashed off to Baton Rouge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: The Long Count | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Crazy about Oil. Turner, long indulgently regarded by friends as daft about oil, got his first encouragement in 1957. He persuaded Starr Gas Co. of Midland, Texas to come in and drill by procuring leases for it on 3,000 acres. The first well struck oil, but it was mixed with so much salt water that Starr Co. despaired of getting the oil out of the petroleum-bearing strata. Disgusted, Starr sold the well, equipment and 80 acres of surrounding lease to Turner for $2,500. Undiscouraged, Turner decided to try his own method. He thought an extremely powerful pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: A Poor Man's Field | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Pitchfork & Ax. A well-read frontier buff, Gruber admits that "in television scripts we distort things. Like in Wells Fargo we have Dale Robertson inventing the swivel holster when it was really invented by John Wesley Hardin. Or we have Belle Starr as a beautiful woman, when she really was a terrible looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: O Sage Can You See | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...remaining short stories, Lore Groszmann's "Mrs. Geiger's Night Out," works from a weak beginning into a strong portrait of a massively silent old woman. The other, Millie Starr's "Crazy Sunday," would be fine but for the fact that Salinger has done it all before and better...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Audience | 10/7/1958 | See Source »

...team secured a 3-2 edge. Robert Scott '31 won the most exciting contest of the day when he snapped the winning streak of Oxford's Cedric Gunnery. Also in singles, Charles Stockton '32 and George Wightman '31 were outplayed by England's Jeremy Hogben and David Lowe. Donald Starr '22 won the vigorous final match when he trounced Oxford's Ronald Newman...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Crimson Leads England In Court Tennis Match | 9/26/1958 | See Source »

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