Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, the following colloquy took place between the secretary in our San Antonio, Texas bureau and an anonymous telephoner. Said our girl, answering the phone : Garfield ni-yon, three-seven...
Sharpened Ears. Like Kansas City's, most of the 70 professional U.S. symphony orchestras were having a boom year. In Texas last week, 12,000 people heard the rising young San Antonio Symphony, 4,000 the recently reorganized Dallas Symphony. The Oklahoma City Symphony played to the largest audience (5,000) in its history. The Columbus Philharmonic, which grew from semiprofessional to professional rank this season, made $1,800 profit on one pop concert. Radios and records have sharpened U.S. ears for symphony; they have also forced local orchestras to raise their standards...
...week, the governing board met to choose a new chairman. Their first choice: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden. He declined, on the grounds that the U.S. had held the post too often. Chosen instead, to serve till 1947: Colombia's representative to the Pan-American Union, Antonio Rocha, whose country will play host to the Union's next big party, the Bogota conference, scheduled for early next year...
Lifesaver. In San Antonio he worked by day and studied English at night school. He picked cotton, herded sheep, stuck pigs. The pig smell was a drawback at Saturday night dances, so Indio went to work in a foundry...
Divorced. By Molly O'Daniel Wrather, 24, daughter of bumbling, boisterous Texas Senator W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel: Jack D. Wrather Jr., 28, member of one of Texas' oil-heeled families; after more than five years of marriage, two children; in San Antonio...