SEVEN BIG TEXANS

Only their bankers know who the richest Texans are. But these would be on anyone's list:

Haralson L. Hunt, 62, of Dallas. Probably the richest in oil income, reputedly worth $263 million, Hunt is tall, solidly built, poker-faced. He is passionately publicity-shy, has had only one known picture taken of him (see cut), walks the streets unrecognized.

W. L. Moody Jr. of Galveston. Moody is a wispy, somber oldster who in his 80s dresses always in black, treats men in their 60s as youngsters. He controls banks, newspapers, a large insurance company, vast ranching interests and oil holdings. He has a dead eye for duck shooting, and runs Galveston.

Jesse Jones, 75, of Houston. Longtime Secretary of Commerce and head of RFC, Jones is not as rich as some of the others (though he has millions), but he wields vast power through his banking connections, his insurance company, and his newspaper, the Houston Chronicle.

Hugh Roy Cullen, 68, of Houston. A spectacularly successful wildcatter, Cullen has given away more money than most men dream of. In one day, he gave away oil properties potentially worth $160 million to set up a Rockefelle-like foundation, has given other millions to hospitals, schools, and the municipal University of Houston. A crotchety all-out Dixiecrat, he has feuded with Jesse Jones, snapping: "Jones has been away from here for the last 25 to 30 years and has come back to Houston and decided, with the influence of ... a bunch of New York Jews, to run our city."

Sid Richardson of Fort Worth. Probably the richest man in oil reserves, Richardson is a fiftyish bachelor who lives in the skyscraper Fort Worth Club, with a fine collection of Remington and Russell paintings of the Old West. A barrel-bodied man with sandy hair and a quizzical smile, Richardson drilled many a dry hole, for years lived on credit in a cheap hotel and ate on credit at a drugstore before he hit it rich in 1935. He owns a 30,000-acre island in the Gulf.

Clint Murchison of Dallas. An oil-rich man who has gone into other enterprises, Murchison owns large interests in gas pipelines, public utilities, insurance companies, a publishing company (Holt). Last week he was entertaining the Duke & Duchess of Windsor at his 120,000-acre ranch in Mexico.

Amon Carter, 70, of Fort Worth. Starting as a publisher, Carter branched out to oil, ranching and real estate. His Star-Telegram is the largest paper in Texas; he also recently built a $2,000,000 TV station. He is a friend and business associate of Richardson, and like him, a collector of Western art. Whenever he buys a Remington, he sends another to Richardson, with the bill. A combination John D. Rockefeller and Grover Whalen to Fort Worth, he is an insistent and generous host.

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