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JESSE JONES . . ROY CULLEN . . JAMES WEST
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H. L. Hunt earns at least $200,000 a day. The Fellow Texans regard big Jesse Jones, one-time cabinet member under Franklin D. Roosevelt, richest man in the world, he is painfully shy. as a very queer millionaire because he is completely sane, very dull and enjoys hard work.
for whom the barren wastelands of the Lone Star State became the land of milk and honey. Or is it oil and baloney?
Everything is big in Texas but the biggest of all are its zillionaires. Much of the crazy money that is still loose in the United States is in Texans hands — billions of dollars of it — in the hands of a few nabobs crazed by the miracle of their own luck, incredulous at the size of their fortunes, and bewildered by all that money can buy.
SOLITARY SHOPPING
Silver Dollar Jim is a man cast in the mold of Diamond Jim Brady. He likes to watch the mob scramble for his dollars, but otherwise he loathes the company of “people.” They get on his nerves. When he goes to Dallas to do a little shopping at Neiman-Marcus, America’s swankiest department store, Silver Dollar Jim wants to be alone. Stanley Marcus, president of the store, is notified whenever Jim West wants to come in. And on a Sunday Marcus will open up the store for Jim alone, even though he may come only to window shop. On those Sundays, the entire store staff must report for work because nobody knows just what Jim is planning to buy: a platinum mink coat or a flyswatter, some precious imported china or a neat little white dress for one of his upstairs maids.
As Jim moves up and down the aisles, with (Continued on Page 49)
Roy Cullen loves to give away green stuff, once parted with $150,000,000 at one throw. He promises to give Houston U. $2,500,000 when its football team beats the Baylor U. eleven.
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