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While Reporter Franklin was watching last week, Researcher Patricia Gordon was in New York digging into the lore to find out what First Ladies are made of. A Texan at heart and a cook by hobby, Pat was delighted when she came across Luci Baines Johnson's recipe for Texas cookies. They presented a particular problem, however, because they must be formed by a special cutter that makes them the shape of the state of Texas. After an unsuccessful search through Manhattan stores, Pat called her mother in Houston and had a Texas cookie cutter sent airmail special delivery...
...KTBC, an Austin radio-TV operation that was bought in 1943 with a $17,500 certified check from Lady Bird Johnson. At that time, KTBC was an unsuccessful 250-watt radio station that had been in trouble with the Federal Communications Commission over regulatory violations. As Johnson family lore has it, it is the President's wife who has parlayed an inheritance of $67,000 and some Alabama land into the present family fortune by masterminding both purchase and management of KTBC. But other people recall it differently...
Adhesive Melody. But Symonette's resonant, deep-chested baritone is heard to best advantage in River Chanty, a heave-ho work song with chorus that evokes the lure and lore of ol' man river. The score's low-water mark is struck in a rankly commercial number entitled Apple Jack, a shallow echo of some of Weill's earlier work. "Weill's best melodies are like glue," exclaims Rosenstock. "If you listen to them, they stick." The most adhesive refrain in Huckleberry is called This Time Next Year and expresses Jim's dream...
When she can muzzle her metaphors, Author Clark is a mine of oyster lore. Millions of years older than man, the oyster is "prolific to the point of indecency." Since oysters are hermaphrodites, a single oyster may be both a father and a mother, changing roles several times in the course of a year. In the best of all possible worlds, an oyster might live 15 years, but only one in 10,000 makes it to maturity. The tingle-snail can bore through the shell of a full-grown oyster and scoop out the meat in six hours. The starfish...
Wednesday, May 20 SUSPENSE (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.).* Gary Merrill as a Florida game warden tracks down and captures two murderers with his bare hands-and nature lore...