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...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...
...last fortnight a planeload of Pentagon brass arrived at Convair's Fort Worth plant, dropped a curtain of security over the flight date, and barred all reporters. Cain, a staffer for the afternoon Star-Telegram, drove his car as close as he could get to the test field, and for days kept watch, until colleagues began calling him "Audubon Cain, the bird watcher." When he finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break...
...Louis (Cain) 1, Cleveland...
...well aware of this. He said in his Jefferson-Jackson Day speech: "The Republicans make a great whoop and holler about the honesty of federal employees, but they are usually the first to show up in a Government office asking for special favors for private interests, and raising Cain if they don't get them. These Republican gentlemen can't have it both ways-they can't be for morality on Tuesday and Thursday, and for special privileges for their clients on Monday, Wednesday and Friday...
...Georgia's George, Texas' Connally and Washington's Magnuson, Democrats; Washington's Cain, Illinois' Dirksen and Idaho's Welker, Republicans...