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Until 1931 Dick Kleberg handled his job from his office in Corpus Christi, with occasional visits to the legislature. But in that year the 14th District's Republican Congressman died and Dick Kleberg, a Democrat, decided to take the job. Since Mexicans liked his fluent Spanish and to solid citizens a Kleberg was a Kleberg, he had little trouble. This year he won his fifth nomination with practiced ease over a Townsend Planner and a crusading newspaperman who criticized him as a scion of autocracy. He did not deign to mention either of them...
...Italian basso of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House is long-legged, sardonic Ezio Pinza. Last week, as Basso Pinza was plowing through a concert in Corpus Christi, Tex., he noticed that a small boy in the front row was waggling his foot...
...driving 1,400,000 miles without accident or arrest Allen Bush Hill, 55, of Corpus Christi, Tex., was last week awarded a $150 Elgin watch and the title "World's Safest Truck Driver" by the American Trucking Associations.* During the 30 years it took him to establish the record, he averaged 46,600 miles per year, not counting nine months driving with the A. E. F.'s Fifth Engineers. More than a quarter of his mileage was covered in one G. M. C. truck. Driver Hill advised: "Give all the road you can, take all they...