Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beauty & the Beast. In Tucson, Ariz., two University of Arizona fraternities admitted that they served horse meat at several meals each week, asked that their names be withheld because it would "ruin us with the girls...
...local and national news events into total eclipse. Spring showers and a grand jury inquiry held at least part of the attention of people in Buffalo. A new book on Truman and the President's withdrawal from the California primary were among the leading topics in Los Angeles. Arizona's farmers spoke happily about the water backing up behind the state's dams...
...case, and last week, after 12,959 pages of testimony, brought in its verdict. It found that Transamerica Corp., the Giannini-controlled bank holding company, dominates 41% of all banking offices, 39% of all bank deposits, and 50% of all bank loans in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona. This dominance, said FRB, does indeed hold the threat of monopoly. It ordered Transamerica to sell its controlling stock in 47 banks*with 667 offices, and to start doing so within 90 days or be haled into court...
...London, J. B. Priestley heard that an overenthusiastic admirer, after reading that Priestley "longed for the sun and soil of Arizona," was air-expressing him a shoe box full of the state's soil. Grumbled the novelist: "I would have preferred citrus fruit...
...dances, but it unfortunately uses some stock movie devices. Little Son of the Hunter, who speaks no English and is resentful of white men, runs away from the Chinle school and is pursued by a friendly Government teacher and a Ute interpreter. After a protracted, melodramatic chase through colorful Arizona country, one of the men is injured on a steep canyon slope. At this point, the picture drops its real problem in favor of artificial plot: the boy abruptly reconciles himself to white civilization in a finish that is psychologically and sociologically lame. Independently produced on a shoestring...