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...time he died at 71 in 1955, Harold Osman (H.O.) Kelly had won a strange sort of fame for a man who was called by the nickname, "Cowboy." People came from far and wide to visit him at his rickety little house outside Blanket, Texas. They would listen to him reminisce, sit while his ancient phonograph scratched a favorite polka. But mostly they came to buy one of his bright and lively paintings of an oddly remote Old West (see color). Sometimes the old man gave them away as gifts-and fine presents they were, too. No less a person...
Bill Hobby Jr. takes over a healthy paper. Daily circulation figures of 215,063 put the morning Post comfortably ahead of its chief local rival, the afternoon Houston Chronicle, and its Sunday circulation is the biggest in Texas. Editorially, the Post's blanket news coverage and lively writing have made it the equal of any paper in the Southwest. But Bill Hobby is taking command of a paper made outstanding by others- who have left...
...abandoned at 12:55 one morning, weeping on the sidewalk in front of a bistro near the Arc de Triomphe. The bistro erupted in a fine frenzy of Gallic tears and cheers. The cops were summoned, and then Eric's father, who swept up his son in a blanket and carried him home. He had, reported Roland Peugeot, paid the kidnapers some ransom money, but would not say where or how much. "It was a personal agreement, and I am the only one to know what happened...
...anywhere in the world in the name of legislative duty, Oregon's headline-hankering Democratic Representative Charles Orlando Porter last June sniffed the air, caught scents of legislative duty calling him to Red China. The State Department denied him a special visa, refusing to exempt him from its blanket ban on U.S. citizens' going behind the Bamboo Curtain. Porter promptly sued, claimed violation of his constitutional rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals last week upheld a lower court decision against Porter. The decision: Porter rates no better than any other citizen in trying to crash State...
Cuba's revolution now seems aimed at taking over every institution, business and property of note in the country. Fidel Castro's National Institute for Agrarian Reform (I.N.R.A.) has blanket authority to seize land, and it is doing just that at a hectic pace. His Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property grabs all possessions of "counter-revolutionaries," real and imagined. To this pair of communizing agencies, Castro last week added a third: the Labor Ministry, which got decree power to take over any business or labor organization...