Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note to our circulation department, TIME-Reader Raymond Weber of San Antonio explains how he got into the habit of giving TIME subscriptions as Christmas gifts to friends and relatives...
...lands awarded the states by Congress last year, are finally being sold to private oil companies. The Government has leased 97 tracts (total: about 300,000 acres) ten miles or more off the Louisiana coast to 25 private operators for $130 million. Highest bid: $6,100,-000 by San Antonio's Forest Oil Co. for a promising 5,000-acre tract near Timbalier Island...
Since art follows money, oil-rich Texas is becoming increasingly rich in oil paintings. To help catch the flow, Houston's art museum is readying a new wing; in San Antonio a new museum chock-full of French impressionists will open next month. In Dallas, the preview of the art exhibition at the state fair drew 900 people last week-twice as many as ever before. And the next night the spanking new $500,000 art museum opened at Fort Worth...
...back-partly because of letters from his Japanese wife. But he still boasted of the Reds' "high regard for me." He deserved their esteem. According to witnesses, he played the Communist game, informed on one American fellow prisoner and recommended that another be shot. Last week in San Antonio, an Army court-martial gave Batchelor the stiffest sentence yet imposed on any American collaborationist: life imprisonment. In Tokyo his wife, still writing letters, said she would "wait . . . no matter how long...
...coordinating plans for the new academy. With an earnest but easygoing diplomacy, he whittled down the bewildering array of blueprints, picked an able committee of civilians and airmen (among them: Charles A. Lindbergh, General Carl Spaatz) to choose a site. Finally, in 1953, having retired to San Antonio, General Harmon was summoned back to help push the whole project through Congress...