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...Amarillo, Tex., similar sounds were heard. As the murals for the Amarillo post office took shape, Texas cowhands said some mighty sharp things about WPAinter Julius Woeltz. Artist Woeltz had painted cowboys loading unbranded cattle into a boxcar, had left out a shipping pen (cattle are never loaded from the open range), showed a lasso dangling from the wrong side of a saddle. His most glaring mistake was substitution of English-style saddles for Western. Said a bystander: "You couldn't never git a cowboy on one of them postage-stamp things...
...writer for the New York Daily News; Arthur D. Eggleston, San Francisco Chronicle labor columnist; Fred Vanderschmidt, cable news editor of Associated Press in Manhattan; William M. Pinkerton, A. P. reporter in Washington, D. C., each for a half-year. Fellowships for the full year: Vance Johnson, managing editor, Amarillo Daily News; George Chaplin, city editor, Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont; Harry T. Montgomery, cable news editor of A. P. in Manhattan; Book Editor Alexander Kendrick, Philadelphia Inquirer; Ralph J. Werner, assistant financial editor, Milwaukee Journal; Editorial Writer Charles F. Edmundson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Harry M. Davis...
Vance Johnson, managing editor, Amarillo Daily News; Charles F. Edmundson, editorial writer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Boyd T. Simmons, reporter, Detroit News; Harry M. Davis, feature writer, New York Times; William J. Miller, reporter, Cleveland Press; Ralph J. Werner, assistant financial editor, Milwaukee Journal; Harry T. Montgomery, cable news editor, Associated Press, New York...
...Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president of the National Mother-in-Law Club, carried a sign reading: " 'MOTHER IN LAW' IS GOOD ENOUGH...
Only since 1863 has Thanksgiving had a consistent year-to-year day, but football coaches were furious: 30% of them had games scheduled Nov. 30 which would now play to ordinary weekday crowds. Calendar-makers took the blow quietly except for Elliott-Greer Stationery Co. of Amarillo, Tex., which happily discovered it had designated Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving Day by mistake. Alf Landon sounded off in Colorado as follows: ". . . Another illustration of the confusion which his impulsiveness has caused so frequently during his administration. If the change has any merit at all, more time should have been taken in working...