01339cam a2200253 4500 1022244846 TxAuBib 20210106120000.0 960130s1951||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 52-018397 TxAuBib Davis, Wallace. Corduroy Road : the story of Glenn H. McCarthy / by Wallace Davis. Houston, Texas : The Anson Jones Press, 1951. 282 p., [40] p. plates : ill., col. front. ; 24 cm. Glenn Herbert McCarthy was an American oil tycoon. The media often referred to him as "Diamond Glenn" and "The King of the Wildcatters". McCarthy was an oil prospector and entrepreneur who owned many businesses in various sectors of the economy. McCarthy founded the Shamrock Hotel in Houston, which garnered him national fame and inspired the fictional character Jett Rink in Edna Ferber's 1952 novel Giant which, in 1956, became a film, which starred James Dean in the role. 19870713. McCarthy, Glenn Herbert 1907-1998. Entrepreneurship Texas Biography. Businessmen Texas Biography. Oil tycoons Texas Biography. Shamrock Hotel (Houston), Texas). TXNES