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...Davis, Landrieu built a coalition of black and upper-middle-class white voters and was elected mayor of his native New Orleans. He appointed blacks to high-level city jobs and, up until his very last days in office, continued to pressure the city's business elite tobe more responsive to the black community and to the area's economic and social needs...
...become the newest boomtown headquarters of the oil industry. Cadillacs and Lincolns with out-of-state license plates cruise the streets. D.B. Biglane, rotund in his checked suit, swoops in almost weekly from Natchez, Miss., in his rented DC-3. Like most visiting oilmen, he wheels and deals at Tobe's Motel and Restaurant. Owner Tobe Philips, who now drives a Cadillac himself, has nearly doubled his prices and started a 16-room addition. Across town, the B & Z Motel is putting up visitors in trailers on a vacant...
...played by Anderson, however, Witwourd is so ridiculous as tobe annoying...
Died. Taube Coller Davis, seventyish, U.S. fashion oracle known for 35 years by her professional name of "Tobe"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Bubbly but ever so shrewd, Tobe gave advice through her syndicated columns in some 50 papers, her newsletters (printed on blue paper with breezy peach covers), her $1,000-a-day consultations, and her 150-girl Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion Careers. Her Manhattan town house was a rendezvous for mannequins and matrons, and her influence was such that in 1953 the French government made her a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
...Shoot included Cousin Armadillo, who stays on the Harris farm because he likes it, is called "Armadillo" because he has killed (he claims) 6,632 of the little beasts and keeps their ears to prove it-and Uncle Bob, who killed a man. Explained Roy's brother Tobe: "This fellow decided to kill Uncle Bob. He and two pals caught Bob in a saloon. The fellow offered Bob a drink, and when Bob lifted it to his lips, he hit him in the head with an automobile wrench. Bob staggered, but he fought back and pulled the other fellow...