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...Amarillo, Texas...
When the Texas Democratic organization convened last week at Amarillo, it contained three groups: 1) the loyalists, who wanted to endorse Stevenson and Sparkman, 2) the rebels, who wanted Eisenhower and Nixon at the head of the state Democratic ticket, and 3) the compromisers, who wanted to let Stevenson and Sparkman head the party ballot, but endorse Eisenhower and Nixon...
...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...
Died. Gene ("Old Tack") Howe, 66, publisher (1926-50) of the Amarillo Globe and News, whose daily column, "The Tactless Texan," was standard fare to thousands in the panhandle; by his own hand (gunshot); in Amarillo (see PRESS...