Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suspicion Confirmed. The boys played with their strange toy for a couple of months, until they burned a hole in Mrs. Epperson's clothes, too. She then took Donald and the hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size...
...longtime newsman (26 years, nine papers), 46-year-old Texan Mewhinney does not regard himself as a columnist but as a "pick & shovel newspaperman," and still spends part of his week as a rewrite man. But his vast curiosity and freewheeling pedantry make him an ideal man for Meeting All Comers. In his spare time, he reads Latin, has taught himself to play the piano and has become a self-confessed authority on arrowhead making, jazz, Government regulations, paleontology, ornithology and coon-hunting...
Crane is a huge, impressive man. "I'm 5 feet, 17 inches tall--that's what I tell anyone who asks how tall I am. When I was in the Army, a Texan requested that I prove that his commander's 6 feet 4 inches was nothing. On the way over to the officer's quarters, he confidentially inquired of me my exact height. I replied, '5 feet, 17 inches.' The Texan looked shocked, then smiled, 'Oh, come now, you're taller than that...
...weeks ago, said Neal, he went to a party, floored a big Texan who got talking tough, and then went over to see Barbara. Tone was there. With Neal on the scene, said Neal, "Barbara went right to Tone and said, Franchot, this is the way it's got to be; it's Tom.'" Tone left, and the happy couple decided to get married on Sept. 15, two days after Barbara's divorce became final...
Divorced. Cinemactor Cornel (Forever Amber, A Song to Remember) Wilde, 35: by sometime Cinemactress Patricia (The Fabulous Texan) Knight, 31; after 14 years of marriage, one daughter, on & off separations since 1947; in Reno...