Newspaper Article

'The Land of the Permanent Wave' Is Bud Shrake's Classic Take on '60s Texas

Shrake, Edwin

2014

Overview

Andre Laguerre, the managing editor later to be dismissed by the money men, broke the news to the writer at their daily late afternoon gathering in the bar around the corner from the Time-Life Building where many of their editorial decisions took place. Sitting around the table or nearby were my wife, a State Senator in town to crown a beauty queen at a \"celebration\" the next evening, a U. S. Congressman who had come down from Washington to make a speech between the parade and the barbecue the following noon, a lumber lobbyist who is mayor of still another town owned by this same lumber company, and I think one or two more people but my memory of that evening has a few holes in it. Representative Dowdy had no faith that I would not cruise the lonely roads through the pine forests shouting, \"Dowdy drinks!\" to the farmers on their porch swings and their wives chopping weeds in hollyhock beds in front of their wooden houses.

• Publisher: The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC
• Subject: Hair / Roads & highways