Word: amarillo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond the Texas panhandle, Gene Howe, publisher of the Amarillo Globe and News, was fondly known as "Old Tack." His folksy daily column, "The Tactless Texan," was the most popular newspaper column in the state, and across Texas he was known as "Mr. Panhandle, Amarillo's one-man Chamber of Commerce." Ranch hands named their pet horses Old Tack, and readers named their children after him. Texans seldom recalled that "Mr. Panhandle" had actually been born in Kansas...
...Atchison, he could never escape the shadow of his father and he got tired of being known only as "Ed Howe's son." He went to Texas and started the afternoon Amarillo Globe. Two years later he bought the morning News. Gradually he spread his newspaper holdings all over the Southwest, although in recent years he trimmed his chain from eleven to five papers (in Amarillo, Lubbock and Atchison) and two radio stations...
Free & Equal. Over the last year, Gene Howe showed signs of losing his zest for journalism. He sold his Atchison Globe to two old associates, told friends he was getting weary of fighting his competitor, the Amarillo Times, which had been backed by the oil-rich Whittenburg family. Last December the Whittenburgs bought 35% of Howe's enterprises, and the Times and Globe merged. Gene Howe talked of retiring, but went right on writing his column. He worried, however, about his health, although repeated checkups showed nothing was wrong with...
...highly significant movement." He announced that Federated, the third biggest department-store chain in the U.S., will invest $20 million in a new link of seven department stores, called Fedway, in small and medium-sized cities. First to get the new Fedway stores will be fast-growing Amarillo and Wichita Falls, Texas. After the first seven are finished, Lazarus says confidently, there will be "many more in the West and Southwest...
...later, Cal Farley, a 55-year-old ex-professional baseball player (Amarillo, Texas "Gassers") who was in New York for the World Series, offered Richard a new start in life. Farley is president of Boys' Ranch at Tascosa, Texas-a sort of cattle-country Boys Town at which hundreds of homeless or once-delinquent lads have been educated. He asked for custody of Richard until the boy is 18. Richard, delighted at the chance to ride horses, agreed as soon as it was understood that he wanted to take his rubber hammer and rubber hatchet along...