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...recent years, Brazos-Tenth has acquired about $1,000,000 worth of stock in nine Texas banks. In one recent case, ownership of a thriving little bank, Moore State Bank in Llano, Texas, changed hands after two big blocks of stock were sold-749 shares to Moursund's mother, 749 to Brazos-Tenth. Those shares constituted controlling interest in the bank, and one Moore State stockholder said later: "After the transaction was closed, Mr. Johnson spoke of it to me at a party and thanked me for selling...
...Other ranchlands in central Texas, including the 1,800-acre Granite Knob Ranch, the nearby 800-acre Lewis Ranch, half of the 4,500-acre Haywood Ranch near Llano, and 1,700 acres along the Pedernales River near...
Died. Marquis Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, 76, a general under Franco in Spain's 1936-39 civil war; after long illness; near Seville. The marquis was famed for only one military feat: outfoxing superior Loyalist forces in Seville, and easily taking the city. Mostly, he fought the war-and won his reputation-with nightly propaganda broadcasts ("The common people are swine . . . Spain must again be made a country fit for caballeros to live...
Besides Fruehaufs highballing twice daily to Calabozo, Arocha had ten white-painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure. This week work was expected to start on another slaughterhouse at Barinas. Already caraqueños found llano meat in the markets at 27? a Ib. Last spring they had paid three times as much...
...Author. Since settling (1938) in California, where climate and treatment have helped his ailing eyesight, Aldous Huxley has collaborated on two cinema scripts (Pride and Prejudice; Jane Eyre), written five books. Now 51, he lives with his wife Martha on a lonely ranch near Llano in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles from Los Angeles. "The only social life,"he says, "is with the cows." The Huxleys' son Matthew, 22, is a reader for Warner Bros...