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...travel around their 100,000-acre spreads by motorcycle, and its "kings in grass castles'' who raise huge herds of Santa Gertrudi cattle. But these are mostly the Australians of myth, slightly larger than life. The faces of modern Australia still include the prospector and the cattleman, but they also include the mine worker, the land developer, the labor leader and the successful young mod designer. Actually, the average Australian is not now-and never was-the remote man of the outback, "the son of field and flock ...from bold and roving stock," as Poet "Banjo" Patterson described...
Shannon's entry into clerical ranks was considerably less traumatic than his departure. He was born 49 years ago this week in Minnesota, one of six children in the family of a South St. Paul cattleman. After graduating as valedictorian from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul in 1941, he entered St. Paul Seminary, and was ordained in 1946. Soon Shannon was off to academia: an M.A. in English from the University of Minnesota (1951), a doctorate in American studies from Yale (1955), the presidency of the College...
...first, the word among L.BJ.'s knowing neighbors was: look out. Old Lyndon's reappearance was greeted by a mixture of nervous smiles and wonderment by his weathered-faced cattleman neighbors in the hill country and by the soft-handed politicians and businessmen in Austin, 60 miles away. Johnson, everyone said, would be a whirlwind. With his gargantuan energy and an ego to match, he would be into everything-buying up banks and newspapers, pulling the strings of Texas politics, holding rambling press conferences on everything from cattle prices to Republican snafus...
...years ago, Ellman decided to expand. For $250,000 he bought control of Longchamps, a New York restaurant chain. He incorporated the Cattleman into the chain, and began buying other restaurants, concentrating on decor. His catering empire now includes 115 restaurants in seven states, and will gross an estimated $75 million this year...
...menu at $1.95 turns out to be cheap Spanish wine. Still, attracted by a $1,000,000-a-year advertising campaign, customers are flocking to Ellman's restaurants in startling numbers. Orangerie serves about 5,200 meals a week, and an offshoot of Ellman's original Cattleman, the Cattleman West, which opened last February, is already serving 1,250 people a day. Those figures are immensely satisfying to Proprietor Ellman, a onetime student of accounting from Brooklyn whose big ambition in school was to become, in his words, "a tycoon." By putting the sizzle ahead of the steak...