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Fate intervened. During the war, the Navy graded the site, and built runways. This spelled O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-I-T-Y to Fort Worth's Publisher Amon Carter. At his urging, Fort Worth took the site over, began converting it at tremendous expense into the Greater Fort Worth International Airport...
...weeks, Ira Cain, 42-year-old military editor of Amon Carter's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, had been working to get a beat. He hoped to report the maiden flight at Fort Worth of Consolidated Vultee's big, new YB-60, the jet version of the B-36 bomber...
...January of this year the first performance of the new film by Veit Harlan were to be given in several West German cities. Students in those cities worked out resolutions in protest against the performance of the film (its name is "Hanna Amon"). This resolution is endorsed by the University of Freiburg by all major student groups: the student council, the Christian-Democrat, the Social-Democrat student associations and by the international organization ISSF (German section of ISMUN...
...plan a benefit show, browbeat a railroad president to get switching facilities for a Fort Worth factory, telephone New York, bully a tightfisted friend into giving $5,000 to a Carter charity, oversee the decorative detail for the men's lavatories in the new $12 million Amon Carter airport, plot another skirmish with that old devil Dallas, or order gift packages of aged whisky, western hats, smoked turkeys, jeroboams of champagne, jeweled western belts and Countess Mara neckties to be distributed to a wide assortment of friends, celebrities and casual acquaintances...
...longer dons a cowboy suit for the annual fat stock show (Amon Carter, president), and seldom wears his checked gambler's suit with electrically illuminated necktie for soirees at Shady Oak Farm. Nevertheless, when he goes abroad, he wears his western hat and cream-colored polo coat, and people say, if they don't know him by sight, "There goes a sport," or, if they are Texans, "a nach...