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...subcommittee met President Eisenhower's brother-in-law. Colonel George Gordon Moore Jr., 54, accused last month by ousted Subcommittee Counsel Bernard Schwartz (TIME, Feb. 24) of trying to swing FCC decisions through his membership by marriage in "the White House clique." Colonel Moore, a crisp and courtly Texan, was born in Galveston, educated at St. Mary's Seminary (Roman Catholic) at La Porte, Texas, in 1940 married Mabel Frances
...scholarly affliction that leads to "the inability of college graduates to read or write." For some extreme types of academic affliction, Graves recommends a Demosthenic treatment: "Fill the sufferer's mouth with pebbles and make him explain his theories in simple language to a mixed audience of Texan cowhands and Boston longshoremen...
...aged millionaire ever had more solicitous relatives than cantankerous Texan James Sexton, who controlled 378 oil wells and owned 9,000 acres in cattle ranches. The relatives-a sister and four nieces-felt entitled to be watchful, for at 70, James Sexton was acting kind of ornery. That was four years ago, when he was staying at the Cleburne rest home operated by Mrs. Agnes Kirk, then 36. There, one day, he showed his appreciation to Mrs. Kirk by handing her a check for $100,000, showed his affection for her, as well, by getting muscularly amorous. Mrs. Kirk fended...
...hectic times.'' But Toddings admitted ruefully that in 40 years "I have never known a newspaper to be on a more defenseless wicket.'' He added sternly that the News editor who passed the piece had been "brought to book." The editor, a bewildered Texan named Elizabeth Pengelly, explained that she had been "disarmed" by the fact that the editorial was written by a usually reliable contributor, the Rev. Vibart Ridgeway, an Anglican priest and scion of an old and distinguished English family...
...cold. Bev Hanson hesitated for one nervous afternoon in the second round and dropped to fourth, came back next day to grab the lead. She finished with a 72-hole total of 299, coasting home in her dandy underwear to her first Titleholders title, five strokes in front of Texan Betty Dodd, eight ahead of Defender Berg...