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...front yards filled with piles of wet carpet, soaked clothes, moldy pots and pans, beach chairs and books, all water-laden, useless, even dangerous from soaking in the diseased stew, and hung about with the smell of decay. Perhaps 20,000 households share this circumstance, according to Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Storm-Ravaged Galveston, Echoes of New Orleans | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...like a lumber yard due to the destruction, it's hard to believe anything there will be open tomorrow. There's no phone service, no water and no power over much of the place. But I have no doubt the city will rebuild better than ever. I knew Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas when I was a beat reporter for the Galveston County Daily News. She's a tough, no-nonsense kind of woman, and from an old Galveston family that knows about hurricanes. The island is lucky to have her at the helm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Family's Hurricane Ike Wedding Weekend | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

Walsh notes one final reason women don't run for office as often as men: they haven't had as many role models. In Galveston, Texas, five-sevenths of the city council is female, and Lyda Ann Thomas is the city's third female mayor. "The first was in the 1970s," she says. "I think the male population was a bit surprised at the fact that a lady was elected mayor, but that opened the door for women. Somebody had to start the trend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cities Where Women Rule | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

...Dana Lyda Farnsworth, professor of hygiene emeritus and former head of University Health Services (UHS), died Saturday at a convalescent home in Watertown, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-UHS Director Dead at 81 | 8/8/1986 | See Source »

...graceful moves of a bantamweight, is restrained from dipping into his repertoire much beyond an occasional grimace and a few eye-pops. His performance is perfunctory; he may well have been bored. Kim Novak, one of his seedy band, wearily remarks of herself at the outset: "Sister Lyda's ass is draggin." Indeed, she bestirs herself only for the strategic seduction of Clint Walker, who has no trouble at all playing an oafish, one-dimensional Ranger. Despite The Great Bank Robbery's pretentious effort, the genuinely amusing western remains an elusive specimen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tunneling to Nowhere | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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