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...sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano (gypsy) the boy called him. The two were inseparable, but very little else was safe within a rope's length of that savage young fighter. He charged the chickens, butted the bucket, larked with the laundry...
...bone-wet chill of winter lifted, and pale sunlight laid shadows of the leafless chestnut trees in fine tracery on the cobbles alongside the Champs Elysees. The swank Ritz cocktail lounge and the grave Plaza Atheéneée bar were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite...
Texans, according to their own adage, "drink wet and vote dry." So strong are Texas prohibitionists that 143 of the state's 254 counties prohibit the sale of liquor in any form; so powerful are Texas thirsts that a drink is seldom harder to get in a dry area than in the 29 counties where the sale of hard liquor is legal. Last week, in an eleven-part series that marked the first time any Texas newspaper had ever published a searching, statewide report on the social effects of the state's alcoholic schizophrenia, the Houston Post (circ...
Bootleggers reap from 200% to 300% on their investment, have bombed judges' homes, killed hostile liquor-law enforcement agents, machine-gunned rivals. One ex-convict named by Mathis supplies a liquor empire in dry counties from nine state-licensed liquor stores in wet areas. In Lubbock, Texas' biggest dry city (pop. 150,000), more than 4,000 bootleggers ply a $15 million annual trade, openly advertise their wares with such slogans as "We Can Satisfy Your Every Need" (the satisfaction costs up to $15 a fifth...
...club advisor broke in, "It makes a sound like the rubbing of a wet hand over glass...