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Boys v. a Man. At the University of Texas in Austin, Lady Bird had a Nei-man-Marcus charge account and unlimited use of Cap Taylor's checking account. But. as Eugenia Lassater recalls, she was "stingy." She still wore Aunt Effie's old coat around campus. But her social life picked up a little. She learned to dance the Louisiana Stomp and acquired at least a sipping acquaintance with bootleg cherry wine. When she graduated in 1934, she had degrees in liberal arts and journalism...
Three Down. Several days after the FBI arrived in Pecos, Texas Attorney General Wilson set off on his own investigation, and his first revelations made the front pages. Employees of Dallas' Nei-man-Marcus luxury store testified that Estes had bought-or gone through convincing motions of buying-expensive clothing for three officials...
...plenty of pushing room. Before long he was addressing meetings, joining the Community Chest (he later became chairman), becoming active in Roman Catholic Church groups. His trademark was his singing voice, and rare was the gathering that Quinn did not entertain with a sweet version of Ke Kali Nei Au, the old Hawaiian wedding song. "Boy," says one friend, "if there was a microphone in the room, you could bet that Bill Quinn would wind up in front...
...common purpose gone, the party has turned flabby and corrupt. Its new strong man is Purushottamdas Tandon, a bearded lawyer who looks like a Hindu holy man and acts like a Tammany boss. A right-winger, he controls the party machine and the political bosses whom Nehru has nei, ther time nor inclination to pay much attention to. Last month a group of Nehru's left-wing followers seceded from the Congress Party, formed a new party of their own. At that, Nehru vowed he would crack down on Tandon, resume his old leadership of the Congress Party...
...Nolan bought Irish Hospitals sweep stakes tickets with the windfall and sent half of the counterfoils to Saroyan. Nei ther won anything...