Word: amarillo
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...Magazine will go John Fischer, 42, general book editor for Harper & Bros, and a contributing editor of the magazine. Scholarly, able Jack Fischer, born in Oklahoma, is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and was a Rhodes scholar (1933-35). He started out as a reporter on the Amarillo (Texas) News-Globe, became a correspondent for the United Press and Associated Press in Europe and in Washington. During World War II Fischer worked for the Board of Economic Warfare, later joined the Foreign Economic Administration. At Harper's since 1944, he has written magazine articles on politics...
...South, they were hard at work, ginning cotton, and the crop looked fine, although below last year's record. In Amarillo, Texas, the seventh annual National Square Dance and Callers' Contest was held, and Manhattan society watched the opening of the 64th National Horse Show. Among the spectators, it was noted, ermine was definitely passe, having been replaced by white mink, which may be a purification symbol...
...Amarillo, Texas...
When the Texas Democratic organization convened last week at Amarillo, it contained three groups: 1) the loyalists, who wanted to endorse Stevenson and Sparkman, 2) the rebels, who wanted Eisenhower and Nixon at the head of the state Democratic ticket, and 3) the compromisers, who wanted to let Stevenson and Sparkman head the party ballot, but endorse Eisenhower and Nixon...
Died. Gene ("Old Tack") Howe, 66, publisher (1926-50) of the Amarillo Globe and News, whose daily column, "The Tactless Texan," was standard fare to thousands in the panhandle; by his own hand (gunshot); in Amarillo (see PRESS...