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...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...
Early Start. In Amarillo, Texas, a seven-year-old culprit was hauled into juvenile court for stealing $5 and seven tricycles. In Franklin, La., a 14-year-old ninth-grader was arrested for cashing two checks she had made out as an arithmetic assignment. In Roanoke, Va., Sherman Lovelace, facing charges of illegally wearing a Navy uniform and possessing an Army discharge, was convicted of polygamy (three wives...
...Texas interior decorator, onetime Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer (with the U.S.M.G. in Darmstadt); in a 1,000-year-old castle near Hechingen, Germany. Blonde Princess Cecilia, once (1936) rumored to be a possible bride for Britain's Edward VIII, will live with her husband in an Amarillo, Tex. apartment...