Word: murchison
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...entry into society is shut tight to anyone who has not paid his or her dues in service to the city. If one has more money than one needs, a handsome percentage of the surplus is expected to be given first to God, second to Dallas. Money Titans Clint Murchison Sr. and Jr. used to say, "Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell...
Bought by Millionaire Oilman Clint Murchison for $600,000 in 1960, the Dallas Cowboys were sold for some $75 million last week to an eleven-member local consortium headed by Multimillionaire H.R. ("Bum") Bright, who likened the purchase to art collecting ("You can enjoy it even though you didn't paint it"), and promised not to call any plays. "It will provide some return but not a good one," said Bright, whose 17% constitutes the largest share. "You would do better in Government bonds...
Regarding that last point, Tom Landry, the only man to coach the Cowboys since the National Football League awarded Dallas an expansion franchise 24 years ago, sounded skeptical. "I don't think anything is ever the same," Landry said. A model owner, Murchison was patient in the beginning and unobtrusive to the end. He decided last year to sell the team to settle the estate of his late brother and because of his own ill health. Although Dallasite WO. Bankston, the largest Lincoln-Mercury dealer in the U.S., was unsuccessful in his bid to acquire the most recognizable property...
...even more even with Marshall, Dallas Owner Clint Murchison obtained a piece of the copyright on Washington's cherished fight song, Hail to the Redskins, played for a galling time at his sufferance. So half-time shows joined the area of dispute. One Sunday early on, commandos from Dallas, or maybe Fort Worth, smuggled scores of chickens into the Washington stadium as part of a scheme to disrupt the marching band. Though the chickens were discovered in time, and distributed to needy families in turn, the incident left a bitter taste...