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Lane of the Llano is the story of Jim (Lane) Cook as he told it to Professor T. M. Pearce. A white-bearded, sturdy old man, now 77, Jim Cook was born in what is now Kimble County, the son of an Indian trader who became a partner of John Chisum. He pronounced Guadalupe "Warloopy," mixed history, folklore, social theory with his memoirs, all of which was taken down by his audience. Jim was captured by Indians when he was n, grew up with them, married an Indian girl, escaped. He worked as a cowhand, knew Billy the Kid, outsmarted...
...life has been devoted to law and politics. In law he made an astute alliance with Ralph T. ("Dyke") O'Neil, past commander of the American Legion and a Democrat. The firm of Hamilton & O'Neil, with feet in both political camps, did well. In 1934 Partner O'Neil got involved in the War Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain, for two reasons worked up rapidly: 1) An urge to get on top of the heap, which drives him to work incessantly...
...some $4,000,000 worth of copy annually for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in Manhattan. Few months before the stock-market crash, Adman Benton, then 29, and Adman Bowles, then 28, went into the New York Secretary of State's office, came out as Benton & Bowles, Inc. Glib Partner Bowles began to write copy. Aggressive Partner Benton went out to sell...
First big account was Certo, for General Foods Corp. Knowing nothing about gelatin products, Partner Benton went to New Jersey, Partner Bowles to Connecticut, ringing doorbells for four months, asking housewives questions until they had 533 typewritten pages of data for their campaign. General Foods gave the young firm a terrific boost when it handed Salesman Benton six big food accounts on his birthday in 1932, still entrusts it with a handsome slice of its $10,000,000 annual advertising budget. One of Benton & Bowles's smartest stunts was to cash in on 1933 Repeal sentiment for Adolf Gobel...
...first but the most conscientious angel of U. S. education, shy, grey-haired, lean-faced Edward Stephen Harkness has given to schools and colleges almost half of the $100,000,000 which he has taken an earnest lifetime to distribute. Son and heir of Rockefeller Partner Stephen Harkness, he paid the nation's sixth highest income tax in 1926, that year inherited the estate of his mother, whose taxes ranked eighth, has since nursed both legacies dutifully. Determined to make philanthropy a life work, he installed himself in a homelike office on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. There...