People Are Telling Us…

…that some Dallas law firms hope to persuade Gov. George W. Bush to appoint 44th District Court Judge Candace Tyson to the state Court of Appeals. The idea is to get the wildly unpopular (and, many believe, unqualified) Tyson out of trial court by kicking her upstairs. Don’t look tor it to happen…



…that guitar god Eric Clapton has been making frequent trips to Dallas to visit his close friend Darby Tipple, a part-time musician and full-time advertising copywriter for J.C. Penney. The two met in a bar but became buddies at a group meeting for alcoholics, Each credits the other as being instrumental in his battle against the bottle…



…that Greenhill parents are miffed because administrators tossed aside the waiting list in order to admit the daughter of new Dallas Cowboy Deion Sanders- and then hired a bodyguard for the little girl…



…that GOP State Chairman Tom Pauken is in trouble with the Christian right. Insiders say the fundamentalists who delivered Pauken into office two years ago merely considered him the lesser of two evils over former party boss Fred Meyer. Now, they control the state Republican executive committee and have sharply curtailed his powers.