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...Arizona desert's edge, in a broad valley twelve miles northwest of Phoenix, there were high jinks one day last week. Sprung up from the cactus in less than five months under the watering of Hollywood money. Southwest Airways' new Thunderbird Field-acting as one of 48 kindergartens for Army Airmen-was graduating its first class. Hollywood starlets trailed inspecting officers down ranks of 102 grey-clad cadets, who had a hard time keeping eyes front...
...Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst (Arizona's "Silver-Tongued Sunbeam") bowed out after his defeat last fall, he assured his colleagues that while they struggled on he would be "enjoying the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night or the scarlet beauty of her blossoming cactus." Last week the genial self-styled Dean of Inconsistency became a member of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Headquarters: Washington...
Cupped in hills, just a mottled dun patch from the air, lies Harar, Ethiopia's second city. After miles of rocks and dust elaborated only by anthills and scrub, after more miles of hills ugly with boulders and cactus, Harar is a welcome sight. It is an ancient city state, founded by Arabs From across the Red Sea, rich in a peculiar hybrid culture expressed at one extreme by thatched roofs decorated at their pinnacles with bright enameled chamber pots, at the opposite extreme by minarets of the rigid Moslem faith. It is a community of ruinous houses girdled...
Married. Genevieve Garner, 18, only granddaughter of ex-Vice President John Nance Garner, onetime black-eyed queen of Virginia's Apple Blossom Festival; and John James Currie Jr., Panhandle ranching scion; as Cactus Jack, hampered slightly by recent dental alterations, beamed from the family pew; in Amarillo...
...Northwest, it's usually a big day when the "guv'-ment buyers" come by. They are officers from the Remount depots and area stations. Remount's buyers travel some 50,000 miles a year over highways and byways, up the creek forks, in fields, pastures, cactus and brush. Sellers know these men want a sturdy, clean-footed, straight-legged horse that "travels right" (straight, no pacers), has good bone, short backs for Army saddles, that they prefer a horse that is ½ to ⅞ thoroughbred, that 75% of the horses they buy are from the Remount...