Word: texans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amateur Pilot Cox seemed to have almost anything a Texan could want...
...days, they say, a Texan once wandered into the Met, and remarked with uneasy awe: "Doggone, it sure would hold a lot of hay." Whatever the Texan might feel now about Francis Taylor's big attic, he would probably have to admit that what it holds...
...lean and fragile," said the scouting report. "He can't play the kind of football we play in this conference." Samuel Adrian Baugh (rhymes with law) was, indeed, lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 lbs.), but the rawboned Texan from Sweetwater was far from fragile. What's more, he wanted to play football so badly that he spent hour after hour throwing a ball through a swinging auto tire to learn passing accuracy. The practice paid off. Baugh was an All-America quarterback in 1935 and 1936 and led his Texas Christian teammates to victory in both...
...page Texas-town saga which seemed to prove that Ferber's view had been right in the first place; Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country, singing Lea's love of his Rio Grande country, north & south of the border; and The Devil Rides Outside, by Texan John Griffin, in which a young American finds his own City of God in a French monastery...
...feel of the Williston Basin area, Miller spent several days in North Dakota last month. The first person he met, after checking into the Plainsman Hotel in Williston, was a Texan who said he was "looking over a few farms to pick up a lease or two." When he learned that Miller was with TIME, he said: "You fellows wrote me up once." The Texan, it turned out, was Dallas Insuranceman Robert Baxter, who had made this exultant boast in mid-1948: "This is a great world, and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas...