People, Dec. 5, 1955

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

Deep in the heart of Texas as a ranch guest of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Tennessee's prowling Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver showed that he can shoot as straight as Tennessee's Davy Crockett—even without his coonskin hat. Hunter Kefauver blasted at a duck with a shotgun, scored a clean miss.

But he also took in hand Johnson's own powerful .300 Magnum rifle with a telescopic sight and brought down a ten-point buck deer, at 309 paces, with a bullet right through the heart. Exulted Democrat...

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