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...every city with a TIME bureau, Western Union quickly learns your home telephone number. One night a few weeks ago the operator phoned and began reading a long, detailed National Affairs query in a disinterested voice: How's unemployment, beef prices, mink sales? What are Seattle drinking habits, changes in bank deposits, Christmas trade forecasts, egg supplies, man-in-the-street thoughts, apartment rents, house sales? Suddenly she stopped reading and gasped: 'Good lord, what they want to know...
Over 200 members of the organization ate the roast beef dinner and listened to short speeches by officers of the University. Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice-president, Edward S. Mason. Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, and Francis M. Rogers, Dean...
...that the prices we ranchers receive have dropped about 30% in the past year, but . . . there seems to be a whole ambush of Ethiopians in the woodpile somewhere between here and the tables at Romanoff's. Maybe if some of you who have heaped the whole onus of beef prices on our heads for the past several years would look into the devious byways of the trade, cowmen could once again go to town in their working clothes without taking the risk of being tarred & feathered with some unpleasant form of meat substitute...
Cowman's Beef...
...Lufkin, Texas (pop. 22,500), one cold night last week, 900 citizens jammed into the high-school gymnasium. There, over a $6 roast beef dinner, they listened to some famed Texans (including U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson) praise a fellow Texan in terms extravagant even for the Lone Star State. Said ex-Governor William P. Hobby: "He is the kingfish of free enterprise." Added Governor Allan Shivers: "He is Mister East Texas...