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...Texas, where ten insurance companies have gone broke in 16 months, there was another crash last week. It was the biggest yet. C. B. Erwin, board chairman of General American Casualty Co., * and two other sad-faced executives walked into the Austin office of State Insurance Commissioner Garland Smith and admitted that General American was bankrupt. It was $1,000,000 in debt and unable to pay its claims. General American, which collected $6,000,000 in premiums last year, has 120,000 policyholders in Texas and nine other Southern states...
...Brown Heady in St. Louis for her part in the kidnap-killing of Bobby Greenlease (TIME, Oct. 19), they found a bottle of pills in her purse. The FBI told the Food & Drug Administration. In the death house, FDA Investigator Roy Pruitt interviewed Bonnie Heady and her partner, Carl Austin Hall. Where, Pruitt wanted to know, did they get the stuff without a prescription? Neither would tell. But Hall said he had been under the influence of the drug, plus liquor, when he killed the boy, and did not think he could have committed the crime without...
...AUSTIN PENDLETON
...York's Len Hall is chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee; New York's James Mead is on the Federal Trade Commission. Still others hold important Government jobs outside Washington; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. is U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (his, predecessor, ex-Senator Warren Austin, is living in retirement at his Vermont home); Clare Boothe Luce is Ambassador to Italy...
...John Austin '56 has divided his Piano Suite for Children into brief sections whose charm lies in their simplicity. Occasionally he takes the title too literally and the result (as in Chorale and Play) is merely pretty salon music. But the movements Song and Duet have a quietly reflective beauty that pervades the suite as a whole...