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...southwestern plains of the U.S., weather as hot and dry as a kitchen stove lid is an accepted part of life. West Texans like to say that when the great deluge flooded the world and Noah took to the ark, West Texas had half an inch of rain. But last week the Southwest was not in a joking mood. In Texas and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado, dry weather had turned to drought and drought was turning to disaster...
There is a new look among G.I.s, and it is a spiritual one. The man who has reached this conclusion ought to know; he is Major General Ivan L. Bennett, the Army's Chief of Chaplains. Speaking to the Little Rock, Ark. Rotary Club, Chaplain Bennett, a Southern Baptist, said flatly that never in his Army experience had fighting men "responded so freely to the things the churches have taught through the years...
...these that they arrived at New York's International Airport last week. Before they are assigned to new mission duties abroad, they will have "months" of rest at home: Evangelist Smith in Marshall, Mo., Nurse Rosser in Lynchburg, Va., and Teacher Dyer in Conway, Ark...
...first star, the committee presented Artie Shaw, the widely read, widely wed (seven times) clarinetist and bandleader. Shaw flew in from a one-night stand in Little Rock, Ark., for a two-hour stand before the committee. The committee's subpoena, blurbed Shaw, "was like a breath of fresh air," because he had plenty to clear...
Appomattox. In Trenton, N.J., three years after they had issued him a speeding summons, state police received a $15 check and a note from Robert A. Caldwell of Proctor, Ark.: "I can't stand it any longer. Here's your money . . . The highway patrolman who arrested me was a damn good Yankee...