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...more than 40 years Beaumont, Texas, was known as a wide-open oil town where booze, bookmaking and bordellos flourished. But no longer: last week, in the wake of a sweeping investigation by the Texas legislature, crap games and horse parlors were closed down. The madams and their girls had checked out of their "hotels" and departed for brighter lights. And 43 people were under indictment on vice charges, including several top officials of Beaumont, neighboring Port Arthur and surrounding Jefferson County...
...years at Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. "I might have got a scholarship," she says, "but Daddy had too much money. He designs steel mills. He designed one for Pakistan and one for Cuba. Before." In a Royal Academy production, Sarah was spotted by Hugh ("Binki") Beaumont, one of London's top managers, "who in the theater if you're in with, you've got it made." Beaumont signed her for repertory, threw her into The Reluctant Debutante, a role she was uniquely suited for, and The Moon Is Blue. Then Term...
Scrounging Hell. The reader meets Gorer in London shortly before World War II on the night that he seduces Cassy Beaumont, which is the night that his unsuccessful one-man show closes. The teen-age daughter of an English father and a West Indian mother, Cassy is so pleased with the quasi rape and the beating that Gorer gives her afterward that she soon moves in with him. Their life together is the scrounging, violent hell without which she would have been disappointed. And Gorer keeps on painting, and cursing and talking-lewdly, sharply, wisely-and grabbing any woman...
...militia against the possibility of wartime refugees from California pouring into Nevada "like a swarm of locusts." And Civil Defense Coordinator Keith Dwyer of California's Riverside County (pop. 306,191) last week told a group of officials and reserve policemen in the town of Beaumont that as many as 150,000 refugees from Los Angeles might stream into Beaumont if there were an enemy attack, and that all survival kits should include a pistol. "There's nothing in the Christian ethic," said Dwyer, "which denies one's right to protect oneself and one's family...
...both sides of Mason-Dixon. the sit-in campaign was gathering support from whites. In Beaumont. Texas, police arrested a white Baptist minister for leading 22 Negro college students in a lunch-counter demonstration. A dozen white students from the University of Minnesota arrived in Nashville to help the sit-in movement. At the request of Negro students, top labor chieftains, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, signed cards pledging themselves to boycott store chains that refuse to serve Negroes at lunch counters in the South.* Students from Harvard, M.I.T. and half...