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...Bird Dogs. The Murchisons' victory on Allan Kirby's home grounds was dramatic notice of the changing role of Texas in the U.S. economy. Easterners still like to think of Texans as illiterate oil millionaires who wear ten-gallon hats-and, when they are in Wall Street looking for money, some Texans shrewdly play the expected part. Says Dallas Millionaire Trammell Crow: "I know I can get in to see people in New York more easily because it says I'm from Texas on my business card. They want to see what a Texan looks like...
...Boeing 707 had barely rolled to a stop at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport last week when the tall, tanned Texan set to work. Looking straight across the welcoming red carpet at Thailand's tough little Premier Sarit Thanarat, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson declared: "We will honor our commitments for the cause of freedom. We will stand by our friends. We will not falter, Mr. Prime Minister. We will not fail...
...House is sensitive about its pocketbook prerogative, and for a while last week the debate was hot and heavy. Texan Wright Patman, floor manager for the bill, hit at the opposition's weak spot: a nay vote would mean a decision against helping the economically depressed. "If you vote against it," he warned, "there will be no depressed areas bill this session." In vain, Republican Leader Charles Halleck argued that the bill could always be sent back to conference for change in its financing method. Cried he: "I do not think the gentleman should be inclined to scare people...
Husband Jack made news enough, greeting a clutch of White House guests from Helen Keller to Negro Track Star Wilma Rudolph, who was escorted by Texan Lyndon Johnson. And Caroline was not to be forgotten: the White House announced that a special nursery school had been set up right inside the White House for her and about ten of her playmates. Wrote the Newspaper Enterprise Association's Jerry Bennett, in a story sent to 600 newspapers: "Not since Shirley Temple zoomed into international fame a quarter-century ago has an American child received so much international coverage...
...Vespa (motorscooters) and B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord's charge for a primetime, 60-second spot: $40. The Bonjour is owned by a wheeler-dealer Texan, Dallas Tycoon Robert F. Thompson, whose other interests include seven U.S. radio stations, five U.S. TV stations, and a sometime partnership with Millionaire Clint Murchison Jr. Radio Nord's programs are taped in downtown Stockholm and delivered regularly to the Bonjour by motor launch, along with the plugs from...