Word: amarillo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no Texan like a Texan born some place else. Texans think this quip perfectly tailored for Amarillo Publisher Gene Howe, who has become the voice of the vast Texas Panhandle by outshouting the natives and trying to forget that he was born in Kansas. In both his Amarillo Globe and News, his garrulous daily column, "The Tactless Texan," is the fountainhead of authentic Panhandle lore...
...Home Again. In Amarillo, Texas, onetime Trusty Robert C. Stewart, sent back to Potter County jail from West Virginia, explained why he had failed to come back in August 1949 when a jailer sent him out to get a morning paper: "He didn't tell me what kind of paper...
...after the North Korean Reds invaded South Korea (TIME, July 3), Editor Wesley Izzard of the Amarillo, Texas Globe & News (circ. 60,079) jeered at the Truman Administration for its indecisive policy in the Far East. Wrote Izzard: "Will we go to war over Korea? Not now. Maybe later-many years from now. You see, Russia plans her moves knowing [that we will merely] issue protests and adopt resolutions [while] the Reds will move right along . . ." But the next day, when President Truman ordered U.S. military aid to the South Koreans, astonished Editor Izzard stood up and cheered: "Today...
...Amarillo Globe's overnight switch was duplicated by many another U.S. newspaper last week. From New York to Los Angeles, there had not been such an impressive near-unanimity of editorial reaction since Pearl Harbor. Editorialized the Fair Dealing Nashville Tennessean: ". . . face the issue now . . ." Agreed the Republican Portland Oregonian: ". . . no choice in honor or in duty...
...Sundowners, mostly shot in the spectacular wide-open spaces around Amarillo and Canyon, Texas, spins a conventional story in scenes that are not too incredible: Sterling and young Barrymore are trying to run an honest ranch, but the cattle rustlers won't let them. Out of the West rides their long-lost black sheep brother, Kid Wichita (Robert Preston), a killer with an all-round mean reputation. Before law & order can be restored, various good & bad actors are plugged through the heart, shot in the back, or, like Barrymore, simply wounded. The girl (Cathy Downs) suffers through every...