Oklahoma City-based Alexander Energy Corp. has acquired American Natural Energy Corp. of Tulsa in a merger valued at $42.5 million, the company announced Tuesday. Under the merger agreement, Alexander Energy exchanged 1.62 shares of the company's common stock for each of the 3,824,848...

A 22.4 percent increase in future net revenues is expected to result from a sharp rise in oil and natural gas reserves for Alexander Energy Corp. of Oklahoma City. Bob G. Alexander, president of the company, said Wednesday that drilling, explortation and acquisition...

There have been many books about Alexander the Great, but history books written by historical novelists are rare. The result in this case is an Alexander personally alive. [The Nature of Alexander] is remarkable for the sharpness of its style…. Mary Renault's opening chapter explores the growth of Alexander's legend, with especial attention to the Persian romances…. What other alien conqueror became a hero to the people he conquered? Her motive in writing the book is to see Alexa...

The controversy created by Alexander has outlasted his glory. [In "The Nature of Alexander"] Mary Renault lists the detractors and their accusations that Alexander was no more than an egoistic despot, a lustful conqueror riding fast to dust and judgment; then the witnesses idolizing a magnetic military genius. From the conflicting testimony, propaganda and legend, she sets out to discover the real Alexander. What she discovers is not long in doubt, nor, to readers of her novels, much surprise....