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Company, and half a dozen
Fall the legendary more beside.
millionaires of Texas (where they pride
HE IS the most specta- themselves that millionaires cularly successful of the
"wildcatters,"
ter
Hunt.
is
more
L.
!
man
THE
HIM AMERICAN
and now the name of the little- known Mr. HUNT
comes to the front with news, of a
reported deal with Persia's Mossadeq.
In a poker game one hot night in the Arkansas rice paddies This may be true, for Hunt to day is still a formidable Poker player even in a city which had produced players to the crafty Jesse Joges (who kept himsel? in change by licking Frankiin Roosevelt).
There was a time not long ago
London Express Servico
AT LA SCAL
THE TATRI
By
FRED MANOR
Milan. "Tuitndat" in the early MOST things in Milan' twenties. M when Hunt had 25 to 30 costly today are run "strictly has become a Hollywood-like An opening night at La Scala "wilden!" drillings going on, on business lines" that affair an authentic fashion the tune of half a million is, they are run to make bulous gowns, each a
with ladies arriving in money. No exception to model usually worth £350
cach, nibbling at his fortune 10
dollars.
show,
new
are counted by the gross),
top probably
the none is richer, among
gambler- certainly none
speculators who pour their legendary, than JA more money down holes in the earth, often to bid it fare- than-half-unknown charac-
well but once in a way Haralson named
to taste the joy that comes when the money spurts back. Ilis few friends and fewer associates at boom of thick black oil,
a thousand-fold in a torrent
He was in on the ground floor this rule is the new periodic A Beket in the stalls costs £ü, ing Dallas, the "Paris of
In the 1930s when the rich East which is appearing on and nobody thinks. twice about the plains," say that Haral- HE OWNS his pipelines unknown quantity to the gorgin Texas field was first brought in, the streets carrying almost, paying 21 for a buttonhole to a
and refineries,
distinguished looking forist in son L. (for Lafayette)
the local as owner of prospecting rights exclusively picture stories. an evening frock and a
on some 4.000 acres. They look-Not picture stories made up cape, Hunt may
be the richest gleaming silvery storage reporters.
ed to tourists like sagebrush do of strip cartoons, but all theatre the
although man in all the U.S.A. Some tanks, railroad tank cars by.
He achieved this by attending sert, put to all mea ke the
Carnation con say in the world.
ahielly to his own affairs, his HE IS the
of
been wife and family and his inherit
ed' passion for privacy. He just the mammoth Hunt Oil
than does not talk to strangers
especially to strangers with pen cils, note-books and a talent for asking awkward questions,
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HIIS INCOME has estimated at Inorb 2360,000 a week,
Among the giants
money
pile and süll be an
of columns and even
он
same
Field of the Cloth of Gold. done with real photographs by bolight at fourpaneel
featuring swarthy southern The big boys have been after Italian "actors."
Hunt this past 20 years, trying
to buy him out. Slowly the price
Such The new periodicals, in fact,
fur
the
ostentatious wealth
has been lacked up 50, 60, 70 | are something of a cross be- pushed out of La Scala the
an illustrated Ho million dollars. The last offer tween
been
and his wife, their four sons and is suid
weekly little typist, the young student, Hollywood. used to rush to the theatre, bun daughters; are rated in 100 million dollars, which even film magazintain and a glossy and the poor shop assistant, who Dallas as "pretty nice people, re- Dallas admits, with a low The only writing in the papers munching sandwiches, and were At 62, having started gular guys, but land of choosy whistle, "certainly ain't hay." is in the captions, and already a generous in their approval with nothing (or, according about the company they keep." "But what would I do with the names of the photo "stars" as they were unrestrained in
their eritlelem. to one story, not much more Hunt is a big man (as Texans my time?" is Hunt's invariable are becoming household words
The new audience le sophisti- than a well-thumbed deck should be), two or three inches reply. "If I decided to sell? in thousands of Italian homes.
cated simply wouldn't know of cards)
not too interested. he is today the taller than the statutory six feet;
My neighbours in the stails only man in a brutally com- clean-shaven, not much hair,
10 stone without ting flabby.
(two Milanese in impeccable petitive field who can hold.
The reason for the picture visitor is mercilessly... barred
dinner-Jackets, without which papers is that they are almed from
paper.
and
a
of
Proud of it his
own with giants like How he laid the foundations Standard of New Jersey, for publication, Nor has he de- of his fortune he has never sald
at being the poor man's "cine me the theatre) listened im- Haralson Hunt and his family ma" for in Italy today, the price patiently to the first act,
As the curtain feil, one California-Texas and Gulf, nied that he "came up the hard are proud of having been a part of a cinema ticket is still be them turned to Socony-Vacuum
of Dallas's transformation from rond the reach of the maforily. resume hurriedly an interrupted his friend, to and the way." world-encircling Shell.
'u dusty cow-town to a shining Even the poorest Halian, how conversation, "As I was telling One story is that he started as skyscraper elly where French ever, And now
can usually afford to you, his name. is cow-puncher, worked in Canada fashions and British roadsters spend fourpence on has picture dollar said, "you can get the linked with a reported deal as a lumberjack and travelled are commoner than In
Ever where a first-class sym
a stumbling block to to buy 15,000,000 tons of the West for a year or two plek York,
ing up odd jobs.
For the 4d. he gels sis pages International Persian oil in the next. five
has replaced.
business is the phony orchestra
mouth-ongan
with some twelve photographs language, problem-and nowhere years.
and the cow to a page. Each photograph is this more of a problem than. His first oll lease is sold boy with his banjo on his face or row of photographs-teils a in Milan The big U.S. oil
have come to him as winnings companies all protest that they want no part in the
They live quietly on a ton story and the never varies. acre place in the fashionable
Unadulterated romance! simmering Persian
Whilc White Rock Lake section of the But that someone big must
city
Their home. a gleaming be in there somewhere is
white reproduction of Georgi clear. .And Hunt is big
Washington's ancestral place at Mount Vernon in Virginia. enough to be the man..
Haralson Hum owns na Rolls, but drives himself, in a medium- | A
in Toheran?
mess.
It is not the first time that his namo has entered the Persiant leture. In May last year ho was reported in Teheran, talking behind
locked doors wilh Mosedeq and his people. He never admitted that ho was there. But he was not seen for some time at his Dallas offices-and suddenly, a night later, he was back.
lechnical
If Haralson Hunt is indeed the richest man in America he has never fald claim to the title.
Unknown to
average clitzen of Dallas, even by sigh (which is remarkable in a city where they point out their prizo millionaires as Hollywood points out its stars) he is no recluse, But he is living proof that a man can climb to the pinnacle of the
JOHNNY HAZARD
"Congratulations. Ibrahim I — under the new Government of the lustrious Dr. Mossadeq you are promoted froni acting lance-corporal unpaid to regimental Bergeant - major — also unpaid!"
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· YOU MEAN ALL THIS GREEN STUFF.IS PHONY?
some
six million week read Milan's Not surprising then that two there is still British cousins (rather than
people picture popers,
plenty of culture at the other learn Italiani) recently decidos end of the scale.
to open an ultra-modern" school The Milan
La Scala, is purely for the purpose of
of the teaching Italians English.
deling on
price, standard American car.apalling contrast which now
In this country.
The school is a Milan's fash- Ionable West End, and a dog
If Mra Hunt owns a tlaro, she The opera is in full season, teachers (all British-born) teach has never been seen in it, or and some of the famous con- the Milonese English by direct admitted that it exists. Their ductors, including von Karajan methods. This is to say that denime and Furtwangler, have been the school is really modern and
that the methods used involve
ding machines, tims and recording mess of other mechanical aids.
In sddition to the
regular the school
joy is to put on faded and go, away for a month to-here already.
In the Canadian north- gether
guns in woods, fishing rods and the back seat of the car.
Hunt is a crack shot with So far, it has been a season English lessons pistol or rifle, specialising in the of German operas and of Aus- has organised its own social hard-to-hit bighorn sheep of the trian singers, and this year La olub, which the puplis may use high Rockits.
Scala has been both an artistic free en condition that they Of his early years, all he has and a financial bien
only English.T known to admit is that he
spcak The season has also been walked out of school one day memorable for Milan's British ganised for children, adults and Special clapses have been or when he was 14 and never went residents, since for the first back. His favourite joke is
businessmen, 41mg for 30 years a
and-cucha the British success of the school courses. simple one, "If I had had. the singer madto news on the stage. are now being sense to get me on, education,
organised for Hip was Mr Murray Dickie, a. Italy's ummed for the Int why sometimes think
A Glassow might
tener. who sang move occasioned have amounted to something." In
Intra Wagner's "Meistersingers, duction of J The
the new European last British
artist to Army, where it is believed that af La Scala was English will be the new official Eva Timer. who appeared in European Army languago.
a
Frederick Cooking
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