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...Aragon became anchor man on the French Communists' intellectual first team. Unlike fellow Communist Jean Paul Sartre-who has often strayed off the Red reservation-Aragon has dutifully echoed the party line, served on Stalin Prize committees, edited party papers, written party poems and eaten party crow...
Like many another Southern city, Dallas accepted schoolrooms as the place for its first test of integration; as a result, about six first grades will desegregate under court order when classes start in September. But unlike other cities where Jim Crow is dying, Dallas has had second thoughts about turning the thorny race problem over entirely to its children. Last week the Citizens' Council, a businessmen's group originally organized to promote Dallas, took a bold step. Said the council: "This should be an adult experience before it is a child experience. If adults couldn't handle...
...been almost completely deaf: he perfected the phonograph in 1887 because his own faulty hearing made him fascinated by the science of sound. His invention so fascinated the public that in those early years audiences sat for whole evenings in stunned silence listening to the tinfoil phonograph crow like a cock, bark like a dog or babble in foreign tongues. Later, the German Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bulow was so moved by Edison's handiwork that when he heard a recording of himself playing a Chopin mazurka, he fainted dead away. In the early days Columbia slipped commercials...
...dramatic notice of the changing role of Texas in the U.S. economy. Easterners still like to think of Texans as illiterate oil millionaires who wear ten-gallon hats-and, when they are in Wall Street looking for money, some Texans shrewdly play the expected part. Says Dallas Millionaire Trammell Crow: "I know I can get in to see people in New York more easily because it says I'm from Texas on my business card. They want to see what a Texan looks like." But at home in Dallas or Houston, today's Texas tycoon is more...
Calvinistic Compulsion. The Texas to which the Murchison boys returned was changing fast, was no longer just a cornucopia shaped like an oil well. Among the Dallas millionaires, Trammell Crow made his fortune by building and operating warehouses in a dozen states, and Carr P. Collins and his sons got their multimillion-dollar stake in the insurance business. Texas Instruments Chairman Erik Jonsson was busy piling up what eventually became $100 million in electronics, and Leo Corrigan was rapidly multiplying his wealth by building a hotel combine that now stretches from the Bahamas to Hong Kong...