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...staircase in the Governor's mansion and out onto the marble terrace for breakfast. Already at the table were his wife Mary Jo (called "Tuti"), their twelve-year-old son Albert L., and their eight-year-old daughter Barbara Louise. Cardinals flitted through the gigantic water oaks and pecan trees on the mansion lawn, and a squad of six Negro trusty prisoners in white uniforms trimmed the grass while the Governor attacked a plate of muffins and bacon. Suddenly a furor arose in the yard. "They've found the horned toad," cried Tuti. "I hope they...
...street from him in fashionable Souissi, a suburb of Rabat. But Etchika has returned to Paris. One of his close friends last year was U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Leon Blair, a brash, talkative Texan and former public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra. Blair shipped in pecan trees from Texas for Hassan's garden, prairie dogs for the royal zoo, ten-gallon hats for Hassan's princely head. When left-wing Premier Abdallah Ibrahim protested Blair's moving into the palace as a "liaison officer.'' it cost the Premier his job. King...
Stories of Mark Twain (Walter Brennan, Brandon de Wilde; Caedmon). Richly furrowed and pecan-sweet, Actor Brennan's voice is perfectly flavored for Twain's famed saga of a betting man, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Ex-Child Actor de Wilde, 18, does equally well by a boy's excitement, awe and terror at the shooting of Boggs as seen and told by Huck Finn...
...lonely lane winding amid stands of pecan trees and through fields of greening winter oats near Baton Rouge, a road construction gang one morning last week discovered the body of a woman: beside her 1960 Renault Dauphine lay Dr. Margaret Rosamond McMillan, 38, bludgeoned to death. The crime shook the campuses of Louisiana State University, both in Baton Rouge and at the New Orleans branch, where "Rosie" McMillan was an assistant professor of biology. The events that followed shook L.S.U. even harder...
...suspects that there are many undergraduates who do not know about all this; and who, if they did know, might be something less than enthusiastic about paying to keep the athlete eating roast beef, while the rest of us subsist on pecan fritters or goulash. But even setting aside this very legitimate kind of jealousy, there are good reasons why the training-table system is open to serious question...