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...Thomas Jr. has been a political junkie since he was a kid working for his father, who ran Sam Thomas Mercantile Co. ("The Poor Man's Friend") in Quitman. Nita first met him when he was 16, driving a yellow pickup, racing voters down dusty roads to the polls. They were married in 1950, and from there they went on to build a comfortable, prosperous life, largely through Sam's property dealings, and to have four children. One of them, Patti Harper, picked us up at the Shreveport airport with her own two offspring corralled in the back...
...this at once; it is hard to say with Sam). When we caught up with him again this summer, he was on a train bound for glory, he hoped, rushing a gubernatorial candidate through 29 whistle- stops, roughly circumscribing the state of Louisiana in four days. Sam's wife Nita wishes he would take it a little easier...
...rare hour with Sam as we approached sundown and Alexandria: Nita had talked him into pulling off his shoes and lying down in a Pullman. "I don't golf, I don't fish. This is my recreation," he said. "I love it." He went into the offstage dealing you do to separate a candidate from the pack and make him a front runner, and if this were a political account we would put the tricks into the ledger. Moreover, on the next day, we would have a quiet hour with the candidate and find him an intelligent, well-intentioned...
...mused Harvard Coach Nita Lamborghini, "we need some offense...
...Crimson and the Terriers battled to a scoreless first half on the artificial turf last night. Harvard was hampered early because Crimson Coach Nita Lamborghini chose not to start Co-Captains Barresi and Jenny Pyle...