TEXAS: Terrific

Texas is the only State that was ever big enough to elect a woman Governor. But Texas women are terrific. From Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson to long-legged Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin, the women of the Lone Star State have been justly famed for their beauty, their temper, their incorruptibility.

Last week a Dallas County grand jury in Ma Ferguson's and Mary Martin's

Texas considered the exploit of 26-year-old Corinne Maddox.

Dressed in black, with a Cossack hat perched on her blonde head, Corinne had stationed herself in a doorway on Main Street at the hour when Dallas goes to...

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