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THE TEXAS TATTLER

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Fortune Empires To Merge

International Business Deal Unites Family

Financial newsflash—What do you get when you combine Texas’s and Australia’s most successful ranching operations? A whole lotta honor, a whole lotta ego and a whole lot more money. Wall Street was reeling this week when word leaked that the mammoth Double Crown and Crown Peak ranches will merge, creating the single largest ranching outfit in history. Investors, Inc. says “Fortune” is now the name in ranching.

The deal will skyrocket the Fortune power and wealth to astounding proportions, though it is still too early for solid predictions about the impact on the family’s net worth. But one thing’s for sure…if these folks keep merging, marrying and mothering at this rate, they’re going to give a whole new meaning to Fortune 500!

And on to “love news”…The Tattler’s fashion guru couldn’t help but notice the sudden, drastic change in Teddy Fortune’s only daughter, Matilda. She has traded in her dusty overalls for utterly elegant duds. Could all this focus on her femininity have something to do with exec-to-swoon-for Dawson Prescott? A source amazingly close to the famed family says that Dawson has tried to resist the tomboy-turned-tantalizer, but recent late-night “developments” (involving a boudoir, a shotgun and an ultimatum) might mean one more Fortune will soon bite the marriage dust!