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Shortly before he left office last week, Texas Governor Allan Shivers answered a question that had intrigued Texans since Election Day: Would he appoint a Republican to the Senate seat of incoming Governor Price Daniel? To the Senate, Shivers, an Eisenhower Democrat, sent canny William Arvis Blakley, 58, a Dallas tycoon who is also an Eisenhower Democrat. When newsmen sought out the appointee with an obvious question, shy Billy Blakley handed them an unequivocal answer: he was a lifelong Democrat, would vote that way in any attempt to reorganize the Senate...
...Blakley is a Texastronomically rich man (estimated worth: more than $300 million) and one of the wealthiest ever to sit in the Senate. He amassed his fortune in real estate, ranch land, banking and insurance, built himself a $500,000 home, now is constructing a $125 million, 120-acre shopping center in Dallas, where air-conditioned walkways will link four office buildings, 150 stores and a 1,000-room hotel. Blakley will hold his Senate seat only until an April 2 special election names the heir to the last two years of Daniel's term...
Possibly because he has promised that he will not be a candidate, Billy Blakley's arrival in Washington touched off unusual harmony among the capital's Texas contingent. Smiled Sam Rayburn: "This is the first time anything political has happened in Texas that was unanimous...
Lionel Hampton and his Band were scheduled to give a swing concert Sunday evening but actually nothing but a glorified stage show took place. From an entertainment viewpoint, the singing of Rubel Blakley and Dinah Washington, the comical acrobatics of Hampton and pianist Milton Buckner, and the valiant efforts of eight Boston Symphony violinists kept the evening from being a dull one. Musically, however, the band displayed merely the polish and intonation of any well-rehearsed name band and its sole distinctive feature was a seven-man brass section which could probably out blow even the Basic...
...Captain Blakley of the baseball team still continues to weed out his candidates so that there are but thirty-one still at practice at the Riding Academy. In addition to the large majority of the men who played baseball last year there are a number of very promising candidates from the freshman class, and it seems probable that the battery will be stronger than it was last year...