Word: crocketts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Named as co-conspirators but not indicted were Herman (Hank) Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun and a longtime Hughes booster; and George Crockett, an old Hughes friend...
Died. Mary Ellen Chase, 86, best-selling novelist (Windswept, Mary Peters, Silas Crockett) who wrote largely about the Maine seacoast where she lived as a child; in Northampton, Mass. A professor of English at Smith College for 29 years, she also taught and wrote about the Bible...
McGuane has been married for eleven years to a tiny, pretty girl who is a direct descendant of Davy Crockett. They have a six-year old son, Thomas IV. Whether on their 40-acre ranch outside Livingston, Mont., or in Key West, the McGuanes are a refuge for a shifting population of the lonely, itinerant or freaked out. "We're everyone's straight friend," he says. "I love the fact that my household is beautifully run. But I need chaos too, so I live near the ocean or the wilderness. I have a mortal fear of being housebroken...
MAUREEN F. CROCKETT...
...Most of all there was Lyndon the patriot, who choked up at the sight of Old Glory on a foreign field and could say-because he wanted to believe it in defiance of the facts-that his great grandfather had died in the Alamo with Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett. Johnson's patriotic fervor made him implacable on Viet Nam, the tragedy that pulled him from office. He was determined that "I'm not going down in history as the first American President to lose a war." He related Viet Nam to Texas: "Just like the Alamo, somebody...