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...Louisiana often builds a brag on its murderous humidity. Amarillo, Texas, brags about its yellow dust. Nashville has a swelled head over the racket, only occasionally musical, that it produces; Memphis lauds itself about the special quiet it has enjoyed ever since the late Boss Ed Crump banned auto horns. Apalachicola, Fla.? The oyster is its world. Hope, Ark.? The watermelon is its. If some places-Podunk, Peoria and Kalamazoo as well as New Jersey -take unexpected pride in being the classic butt of vaudeville jokes, others seem to get a chauvinistic glow from the fact that they resemble...
Exploding Grenades. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who was in Addis Ababa last week, reports: "Shooting broke out all over the capital late on Sunday afternoon and continued sporadically for twelve hours. Automatic weapons chattered incessantly, and the crump of exploding grenades punctuated the firing. Cars were banned from the streets, and roadblocks set up to restrict movement by foot. Next day the government-controlled papers announced that 'one anarchist' had been killed-although hundreds of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition had been confiscated. Local hospitals had been forbidden to give out body counts...
Sakowitz, the Houston superstore that offers the above enticements, has alter-ego trips for Yule and You-all. For $2 million an acre-the buyer provides the acre-Disney Designer Roland Crump will build him and her their own amusement park. Andy Warhol will produce, write, photograph and direct a feature film to suit the patrons' whim...
...Manhattan's bustling East Side. ∙ Died. Gordon Browning, 86, three-term Governor of Tennessee and six-term Congressman (1923-35); in Huntingdon, Tenn. Democrat Browning won his first term as Governor in 1936 with what he called the unsolicited support of the monarch of Memphis, Boss E.H. Crump. Once in office, Browning became a self-styled people's Governor, hammering at "the Boss" by pushing machine-mashing bills through the state legislature. His independent move cost Browning re-election in 1938, but he came bellowing back in 1948, the same year Estes Kefauver was elected...
...long-distance charges may run into the thousands of dollars, John Crump '72, a freshman proctor in Claverly, said yesterday. He said that a similar mistake three years ago in Currier House resulted in a bill of approximately...