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...Texas Governor." I am wondering if you didn't "miscue" on that one. Just when was William Pettus Hobby a Governor of Texas? Although I have never been "deep in the heart of Texas," I have kept a fairly keen eye on the political goings-on of the Lone Star State for the past 20 years, and I cannot recall that any man by the name of William Pettus Hobby has been elected Governor of Texas during that time. "Pappy" O'Daniel, James V. Allred, Dan Moody, "Pa" and "Ma" Ferguson, and several others have been elected Governors...
Ever since 1934, a few lively bars of the William Tell Overture and the wild, hyper-Western cry "Hi-Yo, Silver, away!" has announced that the Lone Ranger was riding again on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Last month the Ranger was riding a new range. The Blue Network had successfully outbid MBS, has been awarded the program (7:30 p.m. E.W.T.) by Sponsor General Mills...
...Mutual, with a million young listeners who have the cowboys-&-Indians habit, had to have a substitute for the Lone Ranger. Just in time, the forsaken network remembered Red Ryder, "six feet of redheaded trigger lightning," famed in boys' books, N.E.A.-syndicated comic strips, cinema serials, and, oddly enough, first serialized for radio by the Blue, 16 weeks ago on the Pacific Coast...
Seldom had a loyal radio audience floundered in such a quandary. To add to the confusion: on the West Coast, Blue continued to carry Red Ryder, Mutual continued to carry the Lone Ranger. Said one horse-opera fancier: "All we need now is a gun fight between those...
...Latin Americans from concentration points in Germany. Hungry, dirty, bedraggled, they were impressed by the blow to German morale that the U.S. entry into the war had caused; cheered by briefly caught evidences of goodwill among French peasants. In a field, as their train sped past, a lone man had stood merrily waving the Stars & Stripes...