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Even for Texas a woman like Clara Driscoll was something. She came from tiny St. Mary's, on the Gulf Coast, and when she was born (in 1881) many an aging Texan still remembered the Alamo. Her father, Cattleman Bob Driscoll, was just beginning to compound his $10 million empire out of equal parts of land and oil and trail-driven herds...
...restless little redhead of 22 when she came home from a costly education and a trip abroad. At San Antonio she found the Daughters of the Republic of Texas floundering in a $75,000 campaign to save the Alamo. (Its courtyard was up for sale as a hotel site.) Clara Driscoll appeared before the startled legislature at Austin, vainly heckled its members, finally rescued Texas' shrine with her own $65,000 check...
...years later the penitent lawmakers paid her back and for good measure hung her portrait (titled "savior of the Alamo") on a capitol wall. One of the legislators was Newspaperman Henry Hulme Sevier, founder of the Austin American. By the time he married the fiery-eyed, sabertongued heiress in 1906 she had written two novels, a musicomedy (Mexicana) which the Shuberts produced on Broadway. And she was already up to her pretty neck in politics, business, philanthropy...
Last week in San Antonio the Lone Star flag drooped at half-staff above the weathered walls of the Alamo. In impressive state in the Alamo's chapel lay the body of its savior. Death (of a cerebral hemorrhage), as it must to all empresses, had come to Texas' Clara Driscoll...
Sparks only muttered: "Alamo, Alamo, that's the $64 question. I don't know what it means...