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... Oscar Griffin , the semiweekly editor from Pecos who won a Pulitzer Prize sixteen years ago for first exposing the town hero for the sweet - talking cad old Billie Sol really is . As editor of the Pecos Independent and Enterprise , Grif ...
... Oscar Griffin , the semiweekly editor from Pecos who won a Pulitzer Prize sixteen years ago for first exposing the town hero for the sweet - talking cad old Billie Sol really is . As editor of the Pecos Independent and Enterprise , Grif ...
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... Oscar went in with his dad , and now that Mr. Griffin is dead , Oscar owns a well - service outfit that has eleven work- over rigs running . " Come on down to El Campo , " he said . " I'll take you for dancing at Nada Hall to hear Red ...
... Oscar went in with his dad , and now that Mr. Griffin is dead , Oscar owns a well - service outfit that has eleven work- over rigs running . " Come on down to El Campo , " he said . " I'll take you for dancing at Nada Hall to hear Red ...
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... Oscar Griffin heard he had won it for his articles in the Pecos Independent and Enterprise exposing Billie Sol Estes , he dropped a six - pack of beer on his toe . I wasn't around a year later when Bob Jackson of the Times Herald won in ...
... Oscar Griffin heard he had won it for his articles in the Pecos Independent and Enterprise exposing Billie Sol Estes , he dropped a six - pack of beer on his toe . I wasn't around a year later when Bob Jackson of the Times Herald won in ...
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