Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes after nightfall when Johnson gets mellow, he can remember every sight and sound of that day in 1941 when Sam Rayburn got the draft extended by a single vote, how the Speaker gaveled the House adjourned and jumped out of his chair when he saw a couple of opposing Congressmen coming up the aisle to vote...
...barely kept ourselves together the first time. When next we saw it, we were tolerant. By the third time, the New Riders were the most consistent "ups", as it were, of the show. Then the message came: these dudes were all right. We frequented the Coop--Discount Records, Sam Goody's Record Hunter and Dayton's Department Store--every two days, just to ask when the Riders album was coming...
...Sam Letrone, proprietor of Chez Sam in Paris, went to Peking to see one of his oldtime customers-Cambodia's exiled ruler, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The prince, Sam wrote to France-Soir Columnist Carmen Tessier, "has a solid appetite. His aunt, a princess, simmers up little dishes. To keep in shape, he plays badminton with Princess Monique and his staff. He still composes songs, and during the Oct. 1 celebrations one could hear his latest work: Nostalgia for China, Which Everyone Knows...
Died. Samuel Spewack, 72, co-author with his wife Bella of dozens of stage and screen comedies since the 1920s; in Manhattan. The two met as young newspaper reporters in New York. "Sam really fell in love with my writing," Bella later quipped. Masters of the formula farce, the Spewacks conquered Broadway with such hits as Boy Meets Girl (1935) and My Three Angels (1953). They also wrote the text for Cole Porter's classic musical, Kiss Me, Kate...
...which then allowed a 27.5% tax deduction on the income of oil and gas producers. In 1956, Connally was among the main lobbyists in Washington who worked for the passage of a bill freeing natural gas from federal price controls. Under the protective wing of Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, also a friend and mentor of Connally's, the bill passed both houses...