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...winning high jump of Walt Davis, a towering Texan, who cleared 6 ft. 10½ in., narrowly missing the world record of 6 ft. 11 in. Olympic record...
...Otis Dozier, 48, a self-taught Texan who started painting WPA murals during the Depression, now sells his light, brightly colored landscapes and pelicans for prices up to $800, including one to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...captain of infantry in World War I. After the war, he plunged into the business and social life of Waco, where his father was a wealthy wholesaler, but it was not quite enough. He began to write slick-magazine stories-"the kind that not even a Texan would brag about." But he was serious enough to take correspondence courses in story writing from Columbia University. Nothing much came of it for a long time, though Cooper discovered that "I have a freak memory-I can remember indefinitely anything that is not important." Of his prizewinning novel he says...
...hottest golfer in this winter's tournament circuit is also the nation's most promising young pro. Jack Burke, a stockily handsome Texan and a golfer for 22 of his 29 years, had won, up to last week, the last three Professional Golf Association contests-the Texas, Houston and Baton Rouge Opens-with his combined scores a dazzling 44 under par. His winnings ($6,720) were tops...
Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...