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Since art follows money, oil-rich Texas is becoming increasingly rich in oil paintings. To help catch the flow, Houston's art museum is readying a new wing; in San Antonio a new museum chock-full of French impressionists will open next month. In Dallas, the preview of the art exhibition at the state fair drew 900 people last week-twice as many as ever before. And the next night the spanking new $500,000 art museum opened at Fort Worth...
Soon after the gentle people of the Maidive Islands abolished their centuries-old sultanate and elected Amin Didi their first President (TIME. Jan. 12, 1953), they began to regret it. Amin Didi was chock-full of reform plans-he wrote a new anthem to the tune of Auld Lang Syne; he abolished purdah and designed a new Mother Hubbard for women to wear; he forced the men to elect women to the legislature; he built an elaborate handicraft shop, despite the fact that rarely more than a half dozen tourists a year visit the isolated island chain...
Purveyors of stereotypes describe twenty-fifth reunions as the time when old pots catch glimpses of the new look. For classmates of 1928 who have been out of contact with the University since graduation, the new look is evident; Harvard is chock-full of new buildings, new courses, new ideas about education to keep pace with the times. Whether the "old pot" label is as apt this year as before is a moot question--especially since the Corporation has selected a new President from the Class of '28: a man young in both the freshness of his ideas and vigor...
Department stores have found that giving a buyer the additional supervision over selling and facilitating functions, as well as over buying, sales events, and profit accounting, has tended to increase sales. With minute records of day-to-day sales acting as chock-ups, the buyer can no longer shift blame onto the management department for poor sales of his specialty...
...Getting money for divinity, geography, a theatre, or a hockey rink sounds a lot easier than it is," he says." When it comes time for actually writing out a chock people can find a lot of excuses...