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...Democratic idol of the day, William Jennings Bryan, and was so smitten that he copied the great man's bow-tie-and-frock-coat dress, his stentorian manner of speech and his shaggy haircut. Connally got his law degree at the University of Texas, practiced in Marlin, Texas, and served two terms in the state legislature. In 1916 he won the congressional seat from Texas' 11th district...
...Marlin & Mariachis. Ten years ago the only way to get to Vallarta (the In name for it was by boat or on burro-back over the Sierra Madre mountains...
Early in the week, after a round of speechmaking in New England, the President had sandwiched in a visit to his father's Cape Cod home, where he cruised near Hyannis Harbor with Joe and Cousin Ann Gargan aboard Joe's 52-ft. yacht Marlin. Later old Joe, who rails at the handicaps of the partial paralysis and loss of speech he still suffers as a result of his stroke nearly two years ago, was off to Chicago. There he had a therapy treatment for his useless arm and leg at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and took...
...passing yachtsmen put into the placid bay, with its long, empty scythe of golden beach and tile-roofed houses climbing the slopes behind. The fishing was great-leaping sailfish and 400-lb. black marlin. The daytime temperature was in the 70s; in the evening, cooling breezes blew down from the mountains, and the mariachi music lasted far into the night. In the early 1950s a dozen or so Americans went to live in Vallarta. Friends came to visit-and hurried back on their own. Before long, Mexicana Airlines started flying in DC-3s, then DC-6s daily from Mexico City...
...whom he has known since the first grade. Quiet and composed as he is, his friends know that there is still some good old-fashioned tomfoolery in Navy's model midshipman. Last June he tossed a water bomb into the room where Fullback Pat Donnelly and Guard Fred Marlin were studying for exams. Marlin grabbed a glass of water and headed for Staubach's room: there stood Jolly Roger in his raincoat...