Sheehy,S. Texas Big Rich. 1992
Sheehy, Sandy. Texas Big Rich. New York: St.Martin's Press, 1992. 399 pages.
This delightful book gives revealing profiles of a cross-section of
extremely rich Texans and their families (pages in parentheses):
Clayton W. Williams, Jr. (21-37) Fort Worth high society (206-222)
Houston high society (38-56) T. Cullen Davis (223-239)
Joanne Johnson King Bass brothers (240-260)
and Herring Davis (57-67) "Cadillac Jack" Grimm (261-269)
Josephine Abercrombie (68-75) Electra Waggoner Biggs (270-275)
Walter Mischer (76-83) Stanley Marsh 3 (276-290)
big-ranch cowboys (84-108) T. Boone Pickens (291-303)
John Connally (109-122) Sybil Harrington (304-313)
Dallas high society (123-144) San Antonio high society (314-332)
H.R. "Bum" Bright (145-153) Galveston high society (333-341)
Hunt brothers (154-172) George Mitchell (342-353)
Wynne dynasty (173-183) high-tech capitalists (354-370)
May Kay Ash (184-196) H. Ross Perot (371-389)
Jarrell McCracken (197-205)
This is the problem with Texas: Everyone else who reads these gently-
sarcastic profiles is snickering most of the way through the book, while
most Texans reading it will feel flattered.
ISBN 0-312-92712-6
- ABERCROMBIE JAMES S (69-70)
- ABERCROMBIE JOSEPHINE (68-75)
- ABERCROMBIE MINERALS (69)
- AINSLEY EDWARD (264)
- ALLEN JOHN (BIOSPHERE 2) (256, 259)
- ASH MARY KAY (184-96)
- BARNES BEN F (114)
- BASS ANNE HENDRICKS (248-50)
- BASS ANNE THRAXTON (241, 251-4)
- BASS EDWARD PERRY (240-1, 243, 248, 255-60)
- BASS LEE MARSHALL (240-1, 243, 248)
- BASS PERRY RICHARDSON (220, 242-3, 255)
- BASS ROBERT MUSE (241, 243, 248, 251-5)
- BASS SID RICHARDSON (240-51, 255)
- BAYOUD BRADLEY (134-7)
- BAYOUD TWINKLE UNDERWOOD (134-9)
- BENNACK FRANK A JR (332)
- BENTSEN LLOYD M JR (D-TX) (14, 316)
- BENTSEN LLOYD M SR (316-21)
- BIGGS ELECTRA WAGGONER (270-5)
- BIOSPHERE 2 (260)
- BRIGHT HARVEY R (BUM) (144-53)
- BRUCKNER WOODY (137)
- BURLESON PHIL (230)
- CAMERON IRON WORKS (70)
- CANION JOSEPH R (ROD) (358-65)
- CARTER AMON G SR (207, 215)
- CARTER HAWLEY HALE (130)
- CHILES FRAN (209)
- CHILES H EDDIE (209-12)
- CLIBURN VAN (220)
- CLUB ROME (352)
- COLLINS JAMES M (R-TX) (127)
- CONNALLY JOHN BOWDEN (B.1917-02-27) (13-4, 109-22)
- CONWAY JIM (WASHINGTON POST) (301)
- COOLEY DENTON (119)
- CRANDALL ROBERT L (214)
- CROW TRAMMELL S (128)
- CULLEN HUGH ROY (39-40)
- DALLAS CITIZENS COUNCIL (127-8, 150)
- DAVIS JOANNE JOHNSON KING HERRING (57-67)
- DAVIS KENNETH WILLIAM JR (225, 227-8)
- DAVIS LLOYD (HOUSTON) (65-7)
- DAVIS MITZI (223-4)
- DAVIS T.CULLEN (223-39)
- DAVIS WILLIAM SELDEN (206, 223-5, 227-8, 230-1, 238)
- DE HORY ELMYR (119-20)
- DE MENIL DOMINIQUE (48-9)
- DE MENIL JEAN (48-9)
- DECISIONS TEAM LIMITED (255-60)
- DELL MICHAEL S (365-70)
- DI PORTANOVA RICKY (39-42)
- EGGERS PAUL (127)
- EISNER MICHAEL DAMMANN (245)
- ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS (373-6)
- FARB CAROLYN (51-5, 118)
- FARB HAROLD (51-4)
- FARENTHOLD SISSY (288)
- FINN HORACE (120)
- FOLLETT KEN (372)
- FOREMAN PERCY (41)
- GOLDWATER ROBERT (308)
- GRAMM PHIL (R-TX) (54)
- GRIMM JACK F (261-9)
- HALBOUTY MICHEL T (300)
- HAMMER ARMAND (166)
- HAMMON NANCY (43)
- HARRINGTON DONALD D (307-8)
- HARRINGTON SYBIL B (304-13)
- HAYNES RICHARD (RACEHORSE) (56, 230-3, 235-6)
- HAZLETON JARED (297)
- HERRING ROBERT (HOUSTON NATURAL GAS) (59-60)
- HERVEY FRED (356)
- HILL MARGARET HUNT (161)
- HINES GERALD DOUGLAS (49-51)
- HOBBY OVETA CULP (44-5, 329-30)
- HOGG IMA (44)
- HOLGUIN HECTOR (356-7)
- HUNT CAROLINE ROSE (161-3)
- HUNT HAROLDSON LAFAYETTE (154-60)
- HUNT LAMAR (155, 163-4, 169-72)
- HUNT NELSON BUNKER (123, 155, 164-72)
- HUNT RAY LEE (155, 159-60, 214)
- HUNT WILLIAM HERBERT (155, 166-72)
- HYDER ELTON (218-9)
- HYDER MARTHA (218-20)
- ICAHN CARL CELIAN (300)
- JAMAIL JOSEPH DAHR JR (93)
- JOBS STEVEN PAUL (387)
- JOHNSON LYNDON BAINES (315)
- JOHNSTON MOIRA (300)
- JORDAN BARBARA CHARLINE (77, 113)
- KEHOE MARY MURCHISON (133)
- KELLEHER HERBERT D (332)
- KELLOGG FRANCIS L (250)
- KELLOGG MERCEDES (250)
- KELLY DEE (243)
- KIMBELL FOUNDATION (215)
- KIMBELL KAY (215)
- KING SHEPPARD III (44)
- KIRSTEIN LINCOLN (249-50)
- KLEBERG RICHARD J JR (111)
- KLEBERG ROBERT JR (91-2)
- KOONTZ HENRY CLAY (323-5)
- LACY CHRIS (95-8)
- LELAND MICKEY (49)
- LEWIS BRYAN (JOHN CONNALLY AIDE) (115-6)
- LIFE LINE FOUNDATION (157-8)
- LONGORIA OCTAVIO (CHITO) (321-3)
- LUNDBERG GEORGE DAVID (72)
- LYNCH ROBERT (GALVESTON TX) (336)
- MALLARD HERBERT JR (15)
- MANGES CLINTON (27-9, 315)
- MARCUS RICHARD (130)
- MARCUS STANLEY (NEIMAN-MARCUS) (129-30)
- MARSH STANLEY III (276-90)
- MARSH WENDY BUSH OBRIEN (285)
- MARY KAY COSMETICS (184-96)
- MATHIS WALTER (327-8)
- MAVERICK MAURY JR (331)
- MCCARTHY GLENN (45-7)
- MCCOMBS BILLY JOE (RED) (102-6)
- MCCRACKEN JARRELL (197-205)
- MCCRORY DAVID (234-5)
- MCKINLEY JOHN K (244)
- MCMURREY LORAINE (43)
- MEADOWS ALGUR H (119)
- MEYERSON MORT (379)
- MILKEN MICHAEL ROBERT (132)
- MISCHER WALTER M SR (76-83)
- MITCHELL GEORGE PHYDIAS (342-53)
- MOODY BOBBY (GALVESTON TX) (339-40)
- MOODY SHEARN (337-41)
- MOORE JERRY J (118)
- MOSS WENDY (133-4)
- MOSS WILLIAM (DALLAS) (133)
- MURCHISON CLINT WILLIAM JR (139-44)
- MURCHISON CLINT WILLIAM SR (140)
- MURCHISON JOHN DABNEY SR (140-2)
- MURCHISON JOHN JR (142)
- NOCERA JOSEPH (300-1)
- NORTHEN MARY MOODY (339)
- PANTEX COMPANY (277)
- PEACEABLE KINGDOM (49)
- PEROT H ROSS (213-4, 371-89)
- PICKENS T BOONE (291-303)
- PISTOR CHARLES (146)
- PORRAS I DAVID (107-8)
- PROTZ EDWARD (339)
- RAINWATER RICHARD EDWARD (245-6)
- RAPOPORT BERNARD (288)
- RESNICK ROBERT (47)
- RICHARDSON SID WILLIAMS (113, 242-3)
- RICKENBACKER EDDIE (47)
- ROACH ED (TEXAS) (302)
- ROACH JOHN V (213)
- ROBERTSON PAT (EVANGELIST) (166)
- ROBINSON ASH (55-6)
- ROBISON JAMES (REV) (233)
- ROGERS FRANELLE (48)
- ROSEN MARIAN (56)
- SAKOWITZ BOBBY (119)
- SANDIFORD KATHLEEN (56)
- SANDS LLOYD (161)
- SCHIFF HERBERT (148)
- SCHLUMBERGER CONRAD (48)
- SCHOELLKOPF BUDDY (161)
- SCHREINER CHARLES III (98-102)
- SHELTON BOBBY (TEXAS) (92-5)
- SIBLEY D J (85-9)
- SIBLEY JANE (87-9)
- SIMMONS HAROLD CLARK (131-2)
- SMITH DARWIN E (93)
- SMITH ROGER BONHAM (375)
- STEVENSON JOHN R (216)
- STEVENSON RUTH CARTER (216-7)
- STOELLENWERCK HENRY (133)
- SUSMAN STEPHEN D (155)
- TANDY CHARLES (213, 246)
- TENNYSON GLORIA LUPTON (221-2)
- TERRY HOWARD L (78)
- THAW LEE (219)
- THIEL DON (118)
- TOBIN MARGARET (MAG) (328-30)
- TURNER TED (220, 243)
- VREELAND DIANA (136)
- WEST JIM (HOUSTON) (44)
- WILLIAMS CLAYTON WHEAT (21-37)
- WINSTON LIBBY RICE (49)
- WITHERS JANE (133)
- WORD PUBLISHING (197-201)
- WYATT LYNN (44)
- WYNNE ANGUS JR (178-9, 183)
- WYNNE ANGUS SR (177-8)
- WYNNE GORDON JR (174, 179-80)
- WYNNE JACQUE RYAN (182)
- WYNNE SHANNON (177-8)
- WYNNE TODDIE LEE JR (175-7)
- WYNNE TODDIE LEE SR (176)
- YARBOROUGH RALPH WEBSTER (D-TX) (111)
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