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...more now, because Mrs. Wagner organized an all-out effort by the Negro community to set up a 25-bed convalescent home where Anderson Hospital's Negro outpatients can stay at little or no cost. Last weekend a thousand rich Negro voices welled up in the Sam Houston Coliseum in the half-resigned, half-hopeful words of favorite spirituals and hymns. Children pantomimed angels and devils, flowers and animals, while a narrator boomed James Weldon Johnson's words in The Creation and Listen, Lord. With an audience of 4,000 and a big advance ticket sale, there...
...shorter, players more versatile. Fans flocked to the stadiums to hear the bands and cheer the helmeted heroes, crowded even breather games in hopes of an upset. Two of the most bruising battles so far saw Big Ten Champion Wisconsin losing to U.C.L.A., 13-0, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Big Seven Champion Oklahoma slip past Texas, 19-14, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl...
...Angeles opened its huge (102,000 seats) Memorial Coliseum for its third annual Art Festival, asked artists for 50 miles around to enter their work. More than 1,000 professionals and amateurs, ranging from Muralist Rico Lebrun to TV Star Lucille Ball, accepted the invitation. Among the standouts: a skillful, grey still life of a jug and grapes by Marion Olds, and a tense study of two vicious fighting cocks by Howard Bradford (both professional artists). In three days 10,000 people came to see the show...
...rain, which they called Baptist weather (because it immersed instead of sprinkling them), the Southern Baptists gathered last week in Houston. It was the biggest convention ever for the big (7,373,498 members) U.S. denomination; 30,000 "messengers" (voting delegates) and nonvoting visitors packed into the Sam Houston Coliseum for seven days of fast-moving business and budgeting...
...family wrangles kept things warm in the Coliseum, but one issue found the assembled Southerners practically unanimous: they clapped, rumbled their approval and cried an occasional "Amen" as this year's President James D. Grey of New Orleans made a metaphorical speech ridiculing the idea that the Southern Baptists might affiliate with the National Council of Churches...