Word: texans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Livingston, N.J., shot a steady 14-under-par for a null total of 274 to win the Tam O'Shanter World Championship of Golf and a first prize worth $100,000 in cash and exhibition fees. Tied for second, just one stroke and $90,000 behind: Texan Earl Stewart and New Yorker Jack Burke...
...foreign fellow is scragged in due time, but not until the screen has been traversed by sandstorms, scorpions, Tuaregs and an epic cooch in which Samia Gamal, the unfrocked Texan-by-marriage, gongs it around pretty effectively...
...hotheaded political action in the summer of 1940. He was in Mexico City when a crowd celebrating Independence Day began to riot. A policeman picked up a chunk of ice, heaved " , it into the crowd. The ice struck Rosenhouse on the head, and when he came to, a big Texan was mopping his face...
James Hord, a cantankerous Texan of 49, made a comfortable living operating two Gulf coast shrimp boats. A stern, touchy man, he insisted that people address him by his World War II title, captain. Ten years ago Captain Hord and his wife began to spend summers near Creede (pop. 503), in southwestern Colorado. Last year they bought a homesite and built a luxurious chink-log cabin with a big living room, two bedrooms, picture window and a two-car garage...
Storm No. 3. The third storm broke around two El Paso firms, United Lloyd's and United World Life. At the companies' bankruptcy suit, it developed that ex-Texan Spencer L. Treharne (who is now living in New Mexico) got his license to start United Lloyd's on $55,000 borrowed from an El Paso bank and $5,000 of his own. The suit brought out that Treharne also took over a piece of real estate his father had just bought for $30,000 and wrote it up to $322,000. United Lloyd's wound...