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Lyndon Johnson's ancestry reaches six generations back into Texas history. One great-grandfather was the second president of Baylor University. Another was a preacher who persuaded Sam Houston to get rid of his Indian mistress and stop drinking. Another was a member of the Texas legislature. Perhaps most important to Lyndon's future, his father was a member of the state legislature-and served there with Sam Rayburn...
...along to the hospital's main building, and the same third-floor VIP suite where he recovered 21 months ago from ileitis. Next morning appeared three of the neurologists who were called in after his stroke-Georgetown's Dr. Francis M. Forster, Columbia's Dr. H. Houston Merritt, and Walter Reed's Lieut. Colonel Roy E. Clausen Jr. They ordered an electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram, spent 65 minutes studying the results and checking their patient. Verdict at tests' end: the President was completely recovered from the stroke; the defect in his speech had disappeared. Thereupon Walter...
...middle-of-the-road Republican editorial page, the morning Post ("written and edited to merit your confidence") has won 65-statewide and national journalistic awards in the past five years, staked out a reputation as the Southwest's most readable daily. It has also seized the rank of Houston's No. I paper from the staunchly segregationist evening Chronicle, which in its dyspeptic distrust of Eisenhower Republicanism, the U.N., and U.S. allies often sounds like an oil-belt echo of the Chicago Tribune...
...free hand from his publishers, Texas' onetime (1917-20) Governor William P. Hobby and his wife, Oveta Gulp, wartime WAC commander and the nation's first (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary. In ten years Laro has quadrupled his editorial staff (to 110) and kept Houston humming with such solidly documented exposés as hawk-faced City Editor Ralph O Leary's biting inside report on Texas' McCarthy-phile Minute Women (TIME, Nov. 2, 1953). Editor Laro's creed: "Go beneath the surface of the news and report things that other people either...
...Known earlier as the Houston Post-Dispatch, the paper successfully defended its right to that name in a court battle with Pulitzer's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, voluntarily shortened...