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...publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Amon G. (for Giles) Carter, devout Texan, found it easy to explain his paper's success. "We get out a newspaper," he said, "that fits our city." Carter's formula, while it did not make the Star-Telegram a famous daily, made it a good one. But his rare combination of showmanship, artful buffoonery and open-handed generosity virtually made Cow-Town Fort Worth a city. Dressed in his ten-gallon hat and cream-colored polo coat, Amon Carter sang Fort Worth's praise all over the world, while passing...
Invitation to Uvalde. The day after Butler landed in Texas, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran a big, black headline: PARTY FEUD ERUPTS. Governor Shivers indignantly announced that Butler had refused an invitation to lunch in Austin. Drawing a bead on Butler, the governor labeled the refusal "regrettable for the future of the Democratic Party." Replied Butler: "I will be happy if the governor comes"-to see Butler...
...Vegas." So Louis Hoffner, 28 years old, went off to serve his life sentence in Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y. But outside Dannemora, more and more voices were insisting that Hoffner was innocent. A policeman friend of the family, an attorney, a New York World-Telegram reporter, set to work to dig up the irregularities, and they found plenty, e.g., that Louis Hoffner's prosecutors had in effect concealed the shaky identification in the lineup. In November 1952, Louis Hoffner was set free...
...telegram sent to the President Wednesday, the group urged "immediate steps to extricate the United States and the world from the present menace of war in the Formosa Straits...
...today's meeting, Benjamin Fairless, board chairman of U.S. Steel, was kept waiting on the witness stand while Fulbright and Capehart engaged in another sharp battle over Galbraith. Capehart ignored the chairman's attempts to rule him out of order in order to read a telegram from the economics professor denying that his 1949 booklet, "Beyond the Marshall Plan," shows communist sympathy...