Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensational yellow journalism which you circulated in an attempt to smear the Facts Forum program of Texan Hunt [TiME, Jan. 11] is itself proof of the inadequacy of TIME'S and Reporter Bagdikian's phony charges...
Ever since the Greeks, athletes have been trying to see how far and high they can jump. Inch by inch, specialists raised the record mark until, last June, a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Texan named Walt Davis rolled himself across a bar 6 ft. 11½ in. high. Last week the official high-jumping world rocked to word that a relatively little (5 ft. 9 in.) Texan at the University of Illinois, using a new technique, had cleared 7 ft. The trouble with the news, from the standpoint of the orthodox: 1) instead of using the conventional running take...
Credit for the discovery goes to Gulf and to a chain-smoking Texan named J. Elmer Thomas, who had been prospecting in Italy since the 1930s. It was Thomas who convinced Gulf that Sicily had oil in commercial quantities. Thomas died in 1949, but Gulf, working through its wholly owned subsidiary, American International Fuel & Petroleum Co., got busy. It hopes to make a deal to pay the government about a 12½% royalty on the oil brought in by its prospectors. Gulf, which has already spent $2,000,000 on drilling and exploration, will spend another $3,000,000 before...
...glories of the Army's basic training, was filmed to the tune of a flag-waving theme song (Take the high ground and hold it! Tho' you face eternity . . .). The raw recruits who are to be turned into soldiers include such familiar characters as the bragging Texan, the brash college boy, the sensitive Negro and the weakling. Happily, the picture spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt is made to give him an extra dimension by having him quote from Edna...
Before the Capitol in Washington, Texas Rancher Eugene M. Biggers presented Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his bride with small tokens of some 2,000 Texans' affection: a $6,000 air-conditioned Cadillac and a certificate from Texas Governor Allan Shivers saluting "a real American [who] is now officially a Texan." Said the Senator: "This is the first car I've driven under my own title that was completely paid...