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Anna NEAGLE
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THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1969.
THE LOCAL SLANT
By Elizabeth Fox
Meet A Real, Live
Texas Oil Tycoon
TE doesn't act like one,
He doen't particularly
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look like one, but neverthe- less Jimmy McRae, Texan Oil
one, Tycoon, is
bedouin, mil- genuine, lionaire-although he'll be the last person to tell you thut.
Knocking at his door, feeling rather like Piglet meeting the Heffalump, and expeeting a len Rollen hat and a insoo tied round his neck, I soon dis- covered Jimmy wasn't Be that at all.
Dressed in a pale blue shiri and monogrammed dark blue pinstriped trou- ser, he sat me down and liberally helping
himself (and me!) to Scotch-on-the- rocki, he told me all about binsself,
"Well" said Jimmy, "I guesa W'e awful hard to explain how I got started. My father was at oil man and was practically
JIMMY MCRAE
reared in it and around it. I bought one drilling rig and then taolher and that's the way it went."
Well Fixed
ile is now President of the Tradewinds Exploration Com- pany Ine, and a partner in the Australian company of Timor Oll Ltd.
In addition to this he has personal interests a few
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Fantastic exploits of
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The Two. Headed Spy
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olfwelis dotted around America, which he pointed out to me On a map and which turned out to bo HIc about arly in number. gured he was well fixed.
"Oll is a gambling Kame," any said. "I've had my ups and downs. You buy a well for $100,000 and if it's dry! That's the gamble. It's fascinating business though and produc some great personalities."
Swimming Pool
Jimmy's wife, Elsie, is also from Texas and they now live In Denver, Colorado, the Rocky Mountain country, in a large rambling ranch-style home with its own swimming pool.
McRae's have The
three children, James the eldest, 10 years old and making good prades at a Military school and who hopes to be appointed to the Air Force soon. Margie who is three and Cody, the baby of the family aged 7 months.
In his little spare time when he is at home, Jimmy likes to swim and play golf, read and water-ski on the inland lakes, but he doesn't have any hobbies. could "Well-none that YOU print anyway drawled Jimmy, eyes twinkling.
He doesn't have his own private aeroplano and likes going off with the family to Acapulco in Mexico, for the winter.
The Buildings
The first thing that struck Jimmy about Hongkong when he got here, was all the new | building going on.
"Everywhere you look." ho sald, "there are new buildings
ANGELA IS ON HER WAY AROUND THE WORLD
WITH Sing, her excitable baby monkey jumping up and down all over the place, Angela Coe told me of some of her adventures during her two- and-a-half years' hitch-hiking round the world.
Nineteen years of age when she left England, Angela is now a pretty, fair-haired, blue-eyed 22-year-old and Ilongkong is only her half way stepping stone.
"It all started in Norway," Angela said. "I met many young people travelling round the world and decided I'd like to do that too. I'd always wanted to see all the different countries and having no money, this was the only way to do it."
She worked as a governess in Norway and spent some time washing dishes in a restaurant. Then she set off with a friend to Sweden and with mority running out, again washed dishea!
for
From Sweden she went foculties she was forced to go to
Germany, Switzer Bagdad,
Iraq.
two Denmark, land and down Into Italy, then months and was there during France.
the July revolution. comic in France she ment dine picking grapes. "This was the hardest job of all," Angela said, "it was back-breaking and I never put a grupe now with- out wondering who picked it!
On To Spain
"Then on to Spain and across to Tangiers and Casablanca. It was a fascinating and colourful land," she said, with all its domes and minarets and the women. in their long pole coloured robes from head to foot, with just a slit for the eyes.
"You could buy any- thing from a shoestring. to a diamond. Their favourite trick was sell-
ing you o
"It was terriblo time," said Angela, "I watched the British Consulate burning and the charred body of the Prime Minister drawn along the streets tied to the back of motor bike. I was stoned and had to be hidden in a private houso until tho curfew hour, when I could slip away." Afghanistan
the next country, where the land was de solate-and-the-few-buses---were- held together by string, then into Pakistun, India and across
to Ceylon. nowspaper
Was
In the Ceylonese jungle, you were already read-
Angela was given 4 three- month-old monkey, Sing, who ing, saying that it was a lator edition!"
journeyed with her on a cargo She then retraced her steps boat from Colombo to Hongkong, northwards to Yugoslavia.via China. she told me. "ife "Where," people are wonderful and plways remember them for their hospitality."
July Revolt
111
On again to Greece-freezing
growing up." He went on, I cold with very little traffic for find it very hot here but I'vetis-and Turkey, where she met here the nicest bunch of spent Christmas in Istanbul, and tought English to private people I've ever met,"
students.
In the
Bince short ine he arrived, he had three suits Lailored for himself— which was the quickest darn thing be ever saw-and which had him highly de- Bghted because they cost less than they would back horne.
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wite ha hind โน่ chicongsam nade, with identical one for little Margie, "Cute as can be?" he said.
I Like Work
Only in Hongkong for a few days, accompanied by his vice- president-Ed Derroh, by the Ume you rend this they will be somewhere between Tokyo, Honolulu and Denver.
asked him...about... lils. arrattions. Bald Jimpay slowly, "I like business atid I like to work. I want to bo succesful business man and
family give my tho better things of life."
I gures he's doing all right so far.
POP -Fine Goings On
WHAT'VE You' SEEN UP TO, PROFESSOR.
Angela then went to Iran for
a year but having passport dim-
Next Aim
Japan is her nexi objective, "I don't want to miss that," she sold.
Well, Angola, all the bost and if you come across anyone grumbl- ing about English_girls having no spirit of ad- venture -- you'll know what to say.
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