Word: waco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the citizens of Waco, Texas (pop. 84,706) don't know it yet, but one of their most prominent neighbors is about to become a famous writer. Waco knows Madison Alexander Cooper Jr., 57, as a wealthy, friendly man who owns so much real estate that it takes all his time to manage it. But, until a few days ago, not even his close friends knew what Bachelor Cooper has been doing a good many quiet mornings and nights in the attic office in his big, late-Victorian house. For eleven years, Neighbor Cooper has been writing...
This week Waco will learn that the book has won the Houghton Mifflin Fellowship ($2,400) and will be published next fall with all the fanfare that accompanies the launching of a potential bestseller...
Last week the cops had grabbed ten of Garza's contacts in Wichita Falls, four in Fort Worth, four in Dallas, and one in Waco. Garza, resting up from his endeavors, looks forward to the day when he will be too old or too well-known to be a zoot-suited undercover agent in high schools. He wants to be a Texas Ranger...
...track without anyone having to go on the record. Southern Democrats and Republicans, in the saddle most of the time, had ridden down some of the Administration's most cherished amendments, substituted some of their own. One-the dream of Bob Poage, a drawling cow-countryman from Waco, Texas-would put all prices on a cost-plus basis, thus guaranteeing industry a profit on every item it makes, no matter how basically unprofitable any item might be. The Poage amendment, besides requiring more accountants than there are in the world (said Price Controller Mike Di Salle), would blow price...
Shultz drives a shiny new Buick and has a De Soto station wagon rigged as an ambulance. He pilots his own Fairchild plane for easy hops up & down the valley, and flies with a pilot in an old Waco into mountain meadows. All told, Dr. Shultz manages to see an average of 45 patients...