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Artur Schnabel, concert pianist and composer, has been appointed Louis C. Elson Memorial Lecturer for 1949-50, Provost Paul H. Buck announced yesterday...
Schnabel will give two lectures on "Music--Its Function and Limitations" here early next December. He succeeds Howard Hanson, of the Eastman School of Music. Hanson took over the post after its establishment in 1948. Mrs. Bertha L. Elson donated the lecture series in honor of her husband, a Boston musician and critic...
These are part & parcel of the Texas story, which TIME'S editors have been telling you about as the Texas boom has developed. Recently, Thomas Griffith, TIME'S Senior Editor for National Affairs, and Robert Elson, chief of TIME Inc.'s U.S. and Canadian News Service, went to Texas to see for themselves what is going on there. They were taken in tow by William Johnson, head of our Dallas bureau...
...shiny new Shamrock hotel was only one week old when Elson, Griffith and Johnson put up there for the night after lunching with Governor Beauford Jester in Austin. Owner McCarthy met them in the Shamrock's mirrored and muraled Cork Club the next day, where they talked while workmen wheeled slatted crates containing the unmounted heads of prize steers-McCarthy's latest trophies - through the upholstered premises. Ex-Wildcatter McCarthy, a lively man even by Texas standards seemed somewhat tired. He had been up most of the night fighting an oil well fire...
...parallel between today's Texas and the huge industrial development that began on the Pacific Coast a decade ago was apparent to Griffith and Elson, who are from the Pacific Northwest. Said Griffith: "No matter how much you think you are prepared for the Texas story by what you have heard and read, you are astonished by what you see. In a week in Texas, we heard not one real doubt of the future, no talk of recession. Businessman after businessman used the phrase free enterprise without putting quotes around it with their eyes. Texans are spending money...