Word: bayous
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Louisiana's Composer-Governor Jimmie (You Are My Sunshine) Davis, 60, and his wife Alvern moved into the costliest governor's mansion in the U.S. Davis was feeling kind of sheepish for having pushed completion of the $1,000,000 "Taj Mahal of the bayous" at a time when he had a record $73 million deficit, insisted that all this Greek Revival splendor is just not for him: "So far as I'm concerned, all I need is my bedroom with a rocking chair, a flashlight and coon dog." As for pictures, said Davis, "the only ones...
...pride and simplicity of the U.S. heartland. There is intellectual Boston, a lady of quality with whalebone traditions, who has hitched up her skirt and gone to work without losing her manners, keeping her balance with an infusion of wild Irish blood into her Yankee veins. In the bayous of Gulf Coast Texas stands Houston, a young, lusty oilman with a fat wallet, unfenced-in tastes and opinions that tend to be conservative. And Los Angeles, on the Pacific shore, is a fast-growing, outdoor girl-a lady with jet contrails ruffling her hair, celluloid coiled around her feet...
...liver installed his mistress in comfortable, convenient quarters. At Gulfport's Municipal Airport, the mess hall ordered an extra 500 lbs. of ice a day to keep the Guardsmen's drinks tall and cool. During the day, the Guardsmen set off for the beach, headed for the bayous to fish for bream. At night they swarmed into Gulfport's nightspots to gamble at the tables and ogle the show girls. There was little work for the unit's recreation officer. Said he: "Last year I tried to organize a softball league. It was a real flop...
...laden aircraft roaring off into the night, exiled Cuban doctors called to service on a hospital ship standing by off the coast, launches making nightly runs to Cuba with explosives and saboteurs. Training groups of exiles were reported breaking up at a mysterious jungle-warfare camp in the Louisiana bayous, at a sabotage school near Houston, at a string of seven camps between Guatemala and Panama. Between 3,000 and 5,000 anti-Castro Cubans-some reports said 7,000-awaited the signal...
...centuries of American history along with the ice cream and Cracker jack. To be located in The Bronx and shaped like the U.S., Freedomland will cram the kiddies full of "Little Old New York" (1750-1850 style), San Francisco at the time of the Barbary Coast (with earthquake), Florida bayous (with alligators), Mississippi stern-wheelers, New England whalers, and a Civil War battle (with neither side winning and no one offended). "Cape Canaveral" will even boast a man-carrying space ship. Said Manhattan's Board of Education President Charles Silver in splendid non sequitur, as the bulldozers prepared...