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...weather for him. Six months ago a big Johnson-for-President headquarters had been established in a twelve-room suite in Austin by Speaker Sam Rayburn; its 14 employees and volunteer workers (including Elliott Roosevelt Jr., 23) were busy handing out campaign literature and Johnson lapel buttons (a brass cowboy hat embossed with L.B.J...
Sand Hog & Cowboy. Harris was a bullying bantam of a man (barely 5 ft. 5 in. without his 2-in. elevator heels) who had great gifts, a natural swagger, and a voice variously compared to a Russian choir, the organ at Westminster Abbey and the rustling leaves of a brass artichoke. Born to enchant and embarrass, bewitch and betray, seduce and swindle a whole Who's Who of famous friends. Harris was never forgotten by those who met him-and rarely forgiven...
...having made a name for himself by hitting the class bully with a cricket ball-which was (and is) not considered cricket in an English school. Harris made his way to America, became a shoeshine boy and sand hog in New York (he worked on the Brooklyn Bridge), a cowboy in the U.S. West (he was fearless as a gun fighter, by his own account), a lawyer of sorts. He served as correspondent for several U.S. papers during the Russo-Turkish war-covering the hostilities from a brothel in Odessa, some say, though Harris insisted that he never left dashing...
...United States Steel Special (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* The first show in a series of"comic portraits of American life" tells the story of The American Cowboy in song, dance and skits...
...just two Americans (and non-Africans) present at Ghana's "emergency demonstration" against TIME'S alleged "imperialist cowboy propaganda" [at which a pile of copies of TIME was burned], may I offer a single additional comment to your Jan. 4 story...