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Presuming that 80% of the line's 138,000 stockholders approve, the name change to Santa Fe Industries is a way to indicate the new and more venturesome look of the hundred-year-old Santa Fe...
...anyone unfamiliar with the U.S. Southwest, "Santa Fe Industries" may sound like an overextended name for a New Mexico manufacturer of Navajo Indian blankets. When the name begins to appear on stock tapes sometime later this summer or early fall, even Easterners will soon learn that it refers to the big and already well-known Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. Like other U.S. railroads, the fourth largest, Santa Fe, has become increasingly active in nonrail businesses, now receives about $17 million annually, or close to 30% of its total earnings, from these other activities...
...SANTA FE OPERA, N. Mex., was completely destroyed by fire last July. Rebuilt at a cost of $1,750,000, it is scheduled to reopen July 2 with Puccini's Madame Butterfly, followed by six other new productions, among them the U.S. premières of Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids (Aug. 7 and 9), conducted by the composer, and Arnold Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter...
Died. Witter Bynner, 86, poet-translator who pulled one of U.S. history's most successful literary put-ons; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Disgusted with the imagist, expressionist and futurist schools of poetry, Bynner in 1916 founded a spurious "spectrist school." Helped by fellow poet Arthur Ficke and a bottle of Scotch a day, he produced in ten days a volume called Spectra, which was praised for two years by eminent critics for such spoofy lines...
Nomadic Editors. Every region of the U.S. produced its own magazines. In the Midwest, Midland (1915-33) published such indigenous authors as Paul Engle, Maxwell Anderson and Howard Mumford Jones. In California, a magazine sensibly titled Magazine (1933-35) printed Critics Yvor Winters and R. P. Blackmur. In Santa Fe, Laughing Horse (1921-39) celebrated the Southwest through the writing of such contributors as Upton Sinclair and Sherwood Anderson. Not all of the contributors by any means became well known; many of talent gave up, or turned to Hollywood or alcohol. "Some of the people now forgotten," says Robert Lowell...