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House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, Tex.—who headed up the redistricting posse—is no Wyatt Earp. But a hardcore gun-control foe like him is likely packing a six-shooter in his belt, making the world wonder whether the redistricting flap could have been solved faster by a good old-fashioned shootout. No such luck: as DeLay entered the state legislature, tumbleweeds rolling in his wake, his “shoot first, ask questions later” approach to state governance might have finally helped matters—if only there...
...goofy, bumbling Jack Tripper, a straight bachelor living platonically with two women; of a coronary-artery tear; in Burbank, Calif., after collapsing on the set of his latest hit show, 8 Simple Rules...for Dating My Teenage Daughter. The son of country-and-western singer and film star Tex Ritter, he worked frequently on TV (his other series included Hooperman and Hearts Afire) and had roles in the 1996 film Sling Blade and on Broadway in 2000 in Neil Simon's comedy The Dinner Party...
DIED. JINX FALKENBURG, 84, cover girl and actress, who along with her husband journalist Tex McCrary helped pioneer the talk-show genre; in Manhasset, N.Y. The hazel-eyed, brunet beauty had appeared in several movies before finding her calling in broadcasting. The Hi Jinx radio show, with hosts Falkenburg and McCrary, first aired in 1946 and featured guest interviews as well as reports on such weighty topics as the atom bomb and venereal disease. Its success spawned a television offshoot called At Home that also starred the two. By the 1950s, the couple's franchise included two radio shows...
...parents always said it was a nice Scottish name. But back in the '60s, when I was a kid, Bruce was for some reason the jokey, archetypal name for male hairdressers and interior designers, as Tex is for cowboys. In those days, unfortunately, I wasn't secure about my own masculinity...
...DIED. TEX SCHRAMM, 83, passionate pro football innovator who engineered the ascent of the Dallas Cowboys; in Dallas. As general manager for 29 years of the club that became known as America's Team, he hired coach Tom Landry and went on to 20 consecutive winning seasons and two Super Bowl victories. The first executive inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he championed the instant replay and was instrumental in the 1966 merger of the American and National football leagues...