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...example of this new type of Texan is Dallas' Glenn McCarthy, a brawny oilman who started out as a roughneck in an oilfield. He made a fortune wildcatting, added to it with a string of oil companies. One of the few to foresee the revolution a-coming, McCarthy poured his oil profits into a natural gas company, set out to sell it to industry. Six months ago, he started a $3,000,000 plant to produce chemicals, hoped to show the way for other Texans to follow...
...story began as a three-page query to all but one* of TIME'S ten bureaus throughout the U.S. and to strategically placed string correspondents. The query asked for answers to 35 specific questions like "Is the veteran of World War II by now as discernible a political and community force as he thought he was going to be a few years...
...ball. There will be state presents for everyone: a gold box full of diamonds (to put on his Garter star) for the King; an engraved gold tea service for the Queen, 17 graduated diamonds for Margaret-and for Elizabeth herself, 21 graduated brilliant-cut diamonds interspersed with baguettes to string on a necklace. For Elizabeth that day will mean also a rise in income from ?6,000 to ?15,000 a year, and the chance to manage her money...
Never was art more "modern." Some of the pictures were mere dabs, streaks and splashes of color; others showed impossible animals and people with grinning Balloon heads on stick bodies wobbling up out of knee-high skyscrapers. There were "abstractions" made of pasted scraps and bits of string; portraits of black-mustached papas; princesses sitting between curtains of golden hair; fish flying over ocean liners; a pink & purple Christmas tree, and multicolored cowboys lassoing long-horned swirls of mud. Yet few visitors to the show in Manhattan's Museum of Natural History last week indignantly asserted that their kids...
Although most of the positions on the squad have been held solidly for more than a week, Mariaschin is a latecomer, and was named as first-string shortstop only yesterday. The Varsity basketball captain has been practicing with the team for a week...