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...right. Last week the jury acquitted Albert Maverick's boy Maury. Mavericks cheered, wept, stamped, went home. Maury Maverick went back to the Mayor's office. The Maverick clan, and many another Texan, thought he would probably weather worse political trials...
...their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini took his NBC Symphony to Carnegie Hall to play Beethoven...
Green-eyed, 31-year-old Mr. Sadler is an East Texan whose mother sold her chickens to give him a start when oil was discovered in the great East Texas field nine years ago. Hustling Jerry Sadler worked at odd jobs and high wages, saved his money and studied law. Last year, still a political unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters...
...Teheran. The language of Prokosch's Americans is a salty, sometimes melodious mimicry, but it rings false too often in such mixtures as "One can't be sure of nothin'. . . ." He speaks of "oil wells burning through the moth-hung night" in Texas, when any Texan could tell him that what characteristically burns at night in Texas is gas, not oil. Through the whole book, despite its fluency and literary skill, runs a vitiating imprecision. Prokosch's words on America seem to apply as well or better to his own writing...
...Texan who had studied art and architecture, Tom Woodburn was commissioned in the Infantry a month after the U. S. entered World War I. He hopes it will never have to enter World War II. Wife Margaret and Daughters Betty, 17, and Peggy, 6, are also artists. Two years ago Betty posed as a streamlined Miss Columbia for one of her father's posters. When his superiors discovered Tom Woodburn's talent, they added painting to his other duties as Chief of the Recruiting Publicity Bureau. What he says of his own Army experience...