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...years ago Conley, then a Signal Corps sergeant, met and married pretty Lucille LaCroix. After the war the Conleys settled down in Amarillo. Lucille was unhappy. In January 1947 she shipped her clothes back to Brockton, borrowed $280 from loan companies, withdrew the Conleys' last $430 from the bank. Then one night she got Bob to take her to a movie. During the show she sneaked out, leaving Bob sitting in the theater, picked up the baby and caught a Brockton-bound plane...
Many a good Texan agreed with Columnist Wes Izzard of the Amarillo Daily News: "No bunch of smut merchants can hurt Texas . . . They decided to insult somebody to get their magazine back in the limelight . . . Don't play into their hands by buying a copy." But such warnings did little good. When Esquire hit the stands, Texans flocked...
...Amarillo, Texas, Princess Cecilia of Prussia, 35, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm, renounced her title, took her U.S.-citizenship oath and became plain Mrs. Clyde Harris, wife of an interior decorator and former Army captain whom she married in Germany...
...Magazine will go John Fischer, 42, general book editor for Harper & Bros, and a contributing editor of the magazine. Scholarly, able Jack Fischer, born in Oklahoma, is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and was a Rhodes scholar (1933-35). He started out as a reporter on the Amarillo (Texas) News-Globe, became a correspondent for the United Press and Associated Press in Europe and in Washington. During World War II Fischer worked for the Board of Economic Warfare, later joined the Foreign Economic Administration. At Harper's since 1944, he has written magazine articles on politics...
...South, they were hard at work, ginning cotton, and the crop looked fine, although below last year's record. In Amarillo, Texas, the seventh annual National Square Dance and Callers' Contest was held, and Manhattan society watched the opening of the 64th National Horse Show. Among the spectators, it was noted, ermine was definitely passe, having been replaced by white mink, which may be a purification symbol...