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...market that even San Diego builders began to come to it for financing. Dallas builders, claim the wide-ranging Texans, did more to develop Atlanta than did Georgians. In Texas itself, the deals flew hard and fast under the hands of second or third-generation millionaires such as Angus Wynne Jr., who sparked the Great Southwest Corp., a development company now constructing a huge industrial park between Dallas and Forth Worth...
...Damned Good Students." Ransom nursed the university press, started a lecture series that lures such literary lights as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. He also started the Texas Quarterly, which appears next month with an all-English issue featuring such authors as Henry Green and Angus Wilson, a cover by Punch Cartoonist Rowland Emmett. (An all-Texas issue is in the works...
...only two English counties north of London were out of quarantine. Even sportsmen and gourmets were affected: fox hunting was banned in certain areas, racing pigeons could not be transported to and from Northern Ireland, and wild stag -a favorite seasonal dish-was swept from table. From Dorset to Angus, husbandmen feverishly telephoned neighbors to discover if a new outbreak had occurred, isolated themselves from visitors for fear the virus would be tracked...
...auction of Black Angus cattle in San Antonio, few paid much attention to the lanky bleacher sitter attired in a battered Stetson, old sports jacket, khaki trousers and cowboy boots. But the inconspicuous bidder was none other than Vice President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson, just back from Paris. Spotted and called by name, L.B.J. uttered an annoyed "Shhh" to his discoverer: "I'm down here to buy something good and cheap." With his secret out, Johnson, partnered with a Houston oilman, bought four yearling bulls...
...Angus Wilson, whose writing has been adapted to the traditional mode of the English novel of manners, sharply criticized his fellow traditionalists for attempting to impose this form on all contemporary novelists. In particular, he chided C. P. Snow for suggesting that "the only healthy, mature way of writing is in the traditional pattern...