Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AUSTIN Seattle...
Rita Hayworth, arriving in France on the United States, was driven from Le Havre to Paris in husband Aly Khan's little Austin sedan ("Aly's $1,000 Car Hauls Rita's Million $ Chassis," cracked the New York Daily News). To reporters, anxious to know about a reconciliation with Aly, she said: "I am delighted to be back in Paris ... I want to see lots of dressmakers while I am here." A few days later, Aly drove up from his Cannes villa, joined Rita at his Paris house. He took her on an extensive shopping tour...
...full term in 1950, Shivers spoke out more & more against the Truman Administration, particularly on the tidelands issue. This caught the ears of Texas' powerful conservative Democrats, mostly wealthy oilmen and ranchers, who already considered Shivers one of themselves. Last December, a group of them sent an Austin lawyer, Clint Small, to tell the governor that they would support him for re-election or for Tom Connally's seat in the U.S. Senate. They wanted a political leader who would keep Texas safely on the conservative side in 1952. Shivers, however, was not certain that Connally would step...
...Defensive. In Chicago, Shivers' cautious side came out. He could not forget that, back home, Ralph Yarborough, an independent Democratic lawyer from Austin, was putting on a vigorous campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor. The primary was to be held the Saturday after the convention. Shivers, uneasy about Yarborough, was afraid his delegation might be thrown out of the Chicago convention. As a result, in Chicago he took a defensive rather than an aggressive stand...
...Lawyer Tom Sealy called together 60 stalwarts of the Shivers campaign organization in Austin to set up the statewide campaign...