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Odell Shepard, Connecticut scholar, politico and Pulitzer Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Al-cott), has collaborated with his son Willard Shepard on this outsized (250,000 words) chunk of historical fiction, in which almost everything happens except the storming of the Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast...
...daily newspapers in the U.S., a great many make money. Some are also good newspapers. One is the Dallas News. As a painstaking purveyor of the news and a slave-driving civic conscience, it is almost as deep in the heart of Texas as the Alamo...
...Antonio's tortilla-flat Alamo Field last week, 50 men in coveralls scurried over, under, into, out of and around nine fat-bodied Curtiss Commando planes. They installed refrigeration equipment in some, heaters in others. On the silver sides of all nine, they painted the royal blue insignia of a brand-new air-freight enterprise: Slick Airways...
Next week Slick Airways will fly its first commercial cargo (vegetables and seafood) to the "Texas Brag" dinner* in Washington. Taking in all the hustle & bustle at Alamo Field, old Charlie Urschel Sr., a director of the fledgling company, cracked: "You'd think there was a hot lease play around here...
...From the Pecos to the Panhandle, 740 Texas Interscholastic League teams slug it out with everything but blackjacks. They usually get more newspaper space than college games, often draw bigger crowds. Fans (who include about everybody in Texas) get in there and cheer as if they were defending the Alamo with Davy Crockett...