Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Crafton, Tex. I am 53 years old and as a boy I sold chicken sandwiches at the railroad station platform at Bowie. I might also add that I waited table at a hotel, sold soda-pop at the ball games and races on Saturdays, sold newspapers, worked for a doctor for two years taking care of his horse and buggy, sweeping out his office and, in addition, milked a cow-all for my board to enable me to go to school. I am not sensitive as to my age or ashamed of my early efforts to earn...
Died. Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan, fiftyish, famed night club hostess; after an operation for ulcerated colitis; in Vancouver, B. C. Born on a potato ranch near Waco, Tex., she left a girls' school to become a rodeo performer, appeared in early western films as ''The Female Bill Hart." In Manhattan, she caught step with the tempo of the Prohibition-Prosperity era, found she could pack her gaudy hotspots by treating her customers with brassy insolence. She had a battalion of attorneys to keep her out of jail for prohibition offenses. Her star waned with the dawn...
...Jack Westrope, U. S. jockey-of-the-year: three races in a day at Arlington Downs, Tex., bringing his season's total of winners to 255. His 247th victory broke the English record of 246 winners ridden in 1885 by Fred Archer. He has two months left to beat the world's record of 338 winners ridden in 1884 by U. S. Jockey Walter Miller. Westrope's closest competitor is Gordon Richards, champion jockey of England, who last week equalled the English record, at Hurst Park, London...
...Jolson, to punch Colyumist Walter Winchell, who suggested the story to Producer Darryl Zanuck (TIME, July 31). Broadway Through a Keyhole shows Crooner Jolson's grounds for fisticuffs were inadequate. The heroine of the picture (Constance Cummings) works at a night club run by a harridan named Tex Kaley (Texas Guinan). Ruby Keeler was once one of Texas Guinan's "little girls," but this parallel would not be enough to make any cinemaddict mistake the heroine or any of the other characters in the picture for real people. The heroine is a goodie-goodie chorus girl, patterned after...
...basic Midcontinent price of $1.11 a barrel for crude oil (set three weeks ago), warned producers against cheating under express threat of exercising his "drastic powers." Meanwhile Nature, with a more powerful threat, endangered again the best laid plans of oilmen for keeping down production: in Anderson County, Tex., gushed the discovery well of a new oil field...