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...music buffs, the flip side of a 45-r.p.m. record is as alluring as the hit side. It is a freebie, a mystery song that might become a chart buster in its own right. Elvis Presley's Hound Dog, for example, was on the back side of Don't Be Cruel...
Tonight an army doctor has called in a civilian force to protect us. The heads of the men have been shaved and their ears seem too big under their caps. Their uniforms look too small or too big and they have basset hound eyes from a lifetime of taking orders. But they stay up all night so the regular troops can sleep on the cold tiles of the town square...
...started with this whorehouse over by La Grange-lil town, sleepy as a ole hound in the August sun, 'bout halfway 'tween Austin and Houston. The place was listed in the tax books as Edna's Ranch Boarding House, but everybody called it the Chicken Ranch. Well sir for sump'n like 80 years the Chicken Ranch was a place a man could call home whenever he needed to get outta his own house. Cowboys, cotton pickers, state senators, the Texas A&M football team, your more adventurous visiting clergy-they all come to Edna...
Some rival St. Louis bankers complain, though, that Long is merely a "publicity hound" who can easily afford to slash the prime rate because Southwest has few commercial borrowers paying the low level of interest. Business lending amounts to only about 11% of Southwest's credit portfolio. The bank specializes in mortgage and installment loans to customers in its immediate, largely Italian, neighborhood...
...Wall Drug, road-weary visitors are faced with a bewildering pastiche of class and kitsch. The store sells $200 Tony Lama boots-as well as $2.19 models of Mount Rushmore and corncob toilet paper for $1.19. Left-handed calf ropers can buy lariats twisted especially for southpaws. The Rock Hound Shop offers fossils and crystals. Campers buy heavy iron skillets, lightweight canteens and water-purifying tablets; ranchers buy lousefly killer, sheep-branding liquid and cow vaccine. God knows who buys hundreds upon hundreds of Wall Drug gimcracks, from spoon holders to ashtrays. "People want a little something they can take...