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...story went around the U.S. last week. Everybody who told it swore that it was true. Everybody had got it from a friend of a friend of a friend. It cropped up in Amarillo, Tex. It even got a straight-faced reporting in the Rochester (N.Y.) Times-Union, the New York Daily News. The story...
...Amarillo, Tex., Farm Boy Roy William Helfenbein was convicted of having six good teeth pulled to help him flunk the draft's physical exam. Penalty: three years in prison. Said the court: "He should serve in prison for the duration...
Emmet Lucey is no ordinary prelate. Most Catholic bishops have actively opposed the Child Labor Amendment* but he has publicly championed it. Catholics are seldom noted for interdenominational gestures-but at the farewell banquet of his California parish before his departure for the see of Amarillo in 1934, nine of the ten speakers were non-Catholics. Many Catholic conservatives, including some in his new archdiocese, have warred on C.I.O. -but he has backed it from its birth. Most Catholic prelates in the U. S. are isolationists-but Emmet Lucey says: "Isolation is a spiritual, cultural and industrial impossibility. To profess...
...Plains they used to say: "Between Amarillo and the North Pole there's nothing but a barbed-wire fence." They scarcely gave a thought to what lay between them and the South Pole. But most Americans lost some of this geographic insouciance with the fall of France. Last week an important book gave this awakening curiosity some facts about U S neighbors to the south...
Married. Genevieve Garner, 18, only granddaughter of ex-Vice President John Nance Garner, onetime black-eyed queen of Virginia's Apple Blossom Festival; and John James Currie Jr., Panhandle ranching scion; as Cactus Jack, hampered slightly by recent dental alterations, beamed from the family pew; in Amarillo...