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Here, the family legacy was certainly not a curse. It bought Bush the chance to furnish his name and about $600,000 to buy a piece of the Texas Rangers, which he sold nine years later for $14 million. His mother still didn't think he was up to winning...
A letter on this page boasted about TIME's battalion of convention reporters, led by managing editor T.S. Matthews and Nation editor Otto Fuerbringer. "They will have all the mechanical conveniences that we can give them: a workroom...complete with teletype, television facilities and direct telephone communication with TIME's...
The big difference in 1948 was that the Republican nominee was in doubt, and TIME's reporters had to keep careful track of how each delegate would vote on the first and then subsequent ballots. The early favorite, Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg, "seemed determined not to connive" for the nomination...
Shocking? Disgusting? Pathological? To outsiders, maybe, but not to some 2,000 devoted hunters who gathered last week in Pierre, S.D., for the annual convention of the Varmint Hunters Association. A gregarious bunch whose activities included an ice-cream social and a karaoke contest--not to mention daily shooting matches...
Today at the convention Woods' targets are balloons and eggs suspended on wires above the V.H.A.'s target range, and he destroys them with ease and confidence. Still, he prefers aiming at live prairie dogs. "We have competitions," he says, "to see who can flip one up onto the barbed...