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...Little Brother." Bom March 23, 1918, in Jolly, Texas, Walter Jenkins was the youngest of six children of a farmer. He grew up in nearby Wichita Falls. "Walter was the baby of the family, and they all doted on him," recalls Mrs. Macon Boddy, a rancher's wife who went to high school with Jenkins and used to date his older brother Bill, a veteran FBI agent now stationed in Amarillo, Texas. "We called him 'Little Brother.' He was a wonderful person, and a sort of child genius in school...
...feel at home," Hubert Humphrey told a crowd of 1,200 in Wichita Falls, Texas, but it was perfectly obvious that he did not. As a notorious Northern liberal making his first campaign venture into the Deep South-a two-day tour of Texas and Arkansas-the Democratic vice-presidential candidate at first was as nervous as a spinster at a stag party. He stumbled over his words, mentioned President Kennedy when he meant Lyndon Johnson, seemed thoroughly ill at ease...
Pork Talk. Hubert spent much of his time talking pork. "You folks have been doing all right," he said in Waco. "You've got the Twelfth Air Force tactical unit and the Veterans Administration office right here." In Wichita Falls, he claimed that Texas got $873 million from the Agriculture Department last year. In Little Rock, he paid tribute to Democratic Congressman Jim Trimble's pork-barreling skills by marveling, "The way it looks, he's been backing up his truck to the Treasury...
Watch It, Jack. Avis has actually become No. 1 in such scattered spots as Indianapolis, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Wichita Falls, Texas-and it has turned success into another ad. It views with alarm what it considers the inevitable fruits of being first: a burned-out signal light that went unnoticed at its Poughkeepsie place. "A few more complaints," says the ad, "and we may have to put in someone a little less complacent. So watch it, Jack...
...priesthood, Beck went to Germany and in 1956 received permission to enter the seminary at Mainz. But before he could be ordained, Pope Pius XII told Beck in a 1957 interview, he would have to find a bishop who would promise to support him. Bishop Mark Carroll of Wichita, Kans., stepped in with an offer shortly before Pius died, but Pope John subsequently decided that there would be too much danger of scandal if Beck served in the U.S., suggested that he find a bishop somewhere else...