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...Senator Is Born. Lyndon Johnson was born and bred to politics. His grandfather, Sam Ealy Johnson, Indian fighter and cattleman, and his father, Sam Ealy Jr., a backslapping rancher and real-estate man, were both members of the Texas legislature. When Lyndon was born, in a little frame house among the pecan and sycamore trees along the banks of the Pedernales River, grandfather Sam rushed out to tell the neighbors: "A United States Senator's been born today...
...after a stint as a debate coach at Houston's Sam Houston High School, 23-year-old Lyndon Johnson advanced on Washington. He had helped in the congressional campaign of Richard Kleberg, one of the owners of the fabulous King Ranch, and Kleberg took him east as a secretary. Before long, Lyndon reorganized something called "The Little Congress," an organization of congressional employees, got himself elected "speaker," and turned a drab organization into a yeasty forum for New Deal proposals...
Lyndon's career got firm support from powerful old Sam Rayburn, a great friend of Lyndon's daddy when both were in the Texas legislature. Rayburn got Johnson appointed director of the National Youth Administration for Texas. Johnson went west again, took on the job with a combination of idealism, enthusiasm and his uncanny ability to organize and operate. He soon had between 15,000 and 20,000 young men hard at work on projects such as playgrounds and highway roadside parks. All told, he turned in a good job and built himself a political foundation...
Round Two. Still wearing the sweater, Ben shot a par 72 on the second round and watched his leading margin narrow to two strokes as Sam Snead, sinking a chip shot on the 18th, fired a 69. Facing two tough rounds the next day, Ben announced, "I feel better than a year ago, and I'm not tired." How about his chances? He was still cautious: "Anyone within ten strokes of me now may be able...
...Frank N. (for Nicholas) Belgrano Jr., 58, president of the First National Bank of Portland, was appointed chairman of California's Transamerica Corp., replacing James F. Cavagnaro, 69, who retired. Apparently because new Chairman Belgrano was given executive powers equal to his own, Transamerica President Sam H. Husbands, 62, promptly resigned his $75,000-a-year job in a huff. Belgrano, the son of the president of San Francisco's Banca Popolare Fugazi (one of the foundations of A. P. Giannini's Bank of America empire), was a $35-a-week messenger for the Bank of California...