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...Nicholas I, Czar of all the Russias, peered southward over his aristocratic nose and voiced the opinion that Turkey was indeed "the sick man of Europe." Exactly 100 years later, an astute and wealthy Texan named George McGhee, at the time U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, looked out over the green plains of Anatolia and said: "You know what this country reminds me of? It's got the stuff, the git up and go, and it's rolling. Why, Turkey today is just like Texas...
...Texan by birth, Key is the author of a definitive book on southern politics and editor of a series of political science books. He is presently engaged in a study of voting behavior in the Northern and Mid-Western states. Interested in applying statistical methods to politics, he has recently prepared a handbook on statistical methods for political scientists...
Like his three younger brothers, Eddie, 43, Herbert Jr., 39, and Lawrence, 36, Mr. Stanley still likes to handle sales to special customers. When one East Texan could not think of what to buy his nine womenfolk, Stanley Marcus suggested nine $750 coats made of vicuña ("fleece of the Andes"), the costliest cloth on earth...
...Mary Lena Faulk. 27. of Thomasville, Ga. After firing a brilliant morning round of 73 strokes at the Rhode Island Country Club (women's par: 74), Georgia's Faulk wobbled somewhat in the broiling (100°) afternoon, but held enough of her morning edge to beat Texan Riley...
...resent." Little resented his way from Cleveland to Chicago, Paris, Wichita and Oklahoma City. Along the way, he stored up inspiration for a song called Flat on My Prat in Pratt, Kansas. In 1939, Scripps-Howard transferred him to the Houston Press. Overnight Carl Victor Little became a fanatic Texan, because "there's no one more zealous than a convert...