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Fred W. ("Lucky") Hooper watched' quietly as a high-heeled man from Texas paced the paddock at Florida's Tropical Park one day last winter. "I'll bet twenty-five on the quarter-horse," barked the Texan. A passerby peeled two tens and a five from his roll and offered to take the bet. "Put that chicken feed back in your pocket," roared the Texan. "I mean twenty-five thousand...
Novelist Tom Lea's father was mayor of El Paso, Tex., and he grew up among ranchers. Lea, however, became no cattle-raising Texan; he became an artist. As such, on commission for LIFE, he landed on Peleliu in September 1944, with an assault wave of U.S. marines and lived through one of the bloodiest island battles of the Pacific war. Since his return he has been hanging around Mexican bull rings with a new ear for the heartbeats of men in danger...
...Blacksmith's Son. Except for the usual pride in being a Texan, Ben Hogan had little to start out with. He was the son of Chester Hogan, the town blacksmith in Dublin, Tex. It was cattle country and most of Blacksmith Hogan's business was shoeing cow ponies. A silent, left-handed runt of a kid, Ben learned how to ride and to fight with his fists...
When the Federal Government won title to the rich submerged oil lands off the California Coast, Texans feared their offshore oil properties would be the next target. They were right. Last week Attorney General Tom Clark, a Texan himself, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to give the Federal Government title to the Gulf of Mexico's offshore lands now being "illegally leased" by Louisiana and Texas to private oil companies. Estimated amount of oil in the 780-mile coastal strip: 10 billion barrels...
...jitters had already seized the troops awaiting air transport. Soldiers, ignoring orders, were fighting their way on to planes already on the field. Intermingled in the disorderly jam of troops, women dressed in soldiers' uniforms struggled to keep squalling infants from getting crushed. "My God," drawled a tall Texan, "they must think these planes are made of rubber...