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Howdy at the Barbecues. The couple lived on a frazzled shoestring in Washington on Lyndon's $3,204 secretarial salary. In 1937, when Johnson wanted to run for Texas' Tenth Congressional District seat, it was Lady Bird who made it possible. She got a $10,000 inheritance advance from her father and paid for the victorious campaign. The Johnsons soon jumped to a relatively comfortable $10,000 Congressman's salary, but Lady Bird did not yet get the hang of buying the right clothes. "She was still tacky," says Eugenia Lassater, "so I told her to turn...
...third game 4-2 on a combination of Yankee errors and Reliefer Wilhelm's knuckle ball, walked off with the fourth game 5-0 on a seven-hitter by John Buzhardt. But the second game was the one Lopez savored. With the score tied 3-3 in the tenth inning, Chicago got two men on with two out. Up stepped Rightfielder Mike Hershberger, a .233 hitter. "I'm gonna hit a home run," he vowed. Fat chance. But his sharp single to right won the game, and Señor Al Lopez catapulted off the bench to shake...
Indirect Interest? Aside from the Johnsons' broadcasting empire, there is the matter of the Brazos-Tenth Street Co. Originated in 1955 as a real estate developer's device for holding an old building at Brazos and Tenth Streets in Austin, it is now a freewheeling, highly diversified outfit...
Land Baron A. W. Moursund, 45, longtime friend and now principal trustee of the President's financial interests,* says that no Johnson family member has a direct interest in the company. Yet an example of Brazos-Tenth's complicated intertwining with the Johnsons turned up in early 1962. On Feb. 1 the LBJ Co. sold some subdivided lots to Brazos-Tenth. The deed was signed by J. C. Kellam, president of the LBJ Co., and by Donald Thomas, the LBJ Co. secretary. Before the day was over, essentially the same real estate package was sold by Brazos-Tenth...
...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...