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Last week the hands and ranchers crowded about the pay phone in the back of Dutch's grocery store. Dutch put in a call for General Patrick J. Hurley, in Santa Fe. Old' Billy spoke into the phone. "Hello? Is this Pat Hurley? Well, this is Bill." Bill was talking to his brother for the first time since...
When New Mexico became a state in 1912, the area around Santa Fe was predominantly Roman Catholic. As more Protestants moved in, there was more & more grumbling about nuns (on the state payroll) still doing much of the teaching in the public schools, and about classroom crucifixes and catechisms (TIME, Sept. 29). Last week Protestant resentment finally led to a state court suit filed by 28 taxpayers who demanded that "all members of Catholic teaching orders be declared ineligible and forever barred" from New Mexico public schools...
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...Santa Fe Railroad began daily service with its sleekest, fastest "gin rummy haven," the Super Chief. The train's new cars have radios and running ice water in every bedroom...
...philosophy which implied a fundamental opposition to the theories behind our project." But undaunted Director Abbott galloped over England and the U.S., roping poets left and right-". . . lunch at Taplow with Walter de la Mare . . . the Isle of Wight with Alfred Noyes. . . . Witter Bynner adobe-housed at Santa Fe . . . Louis Untermeyer [cornered] in a cool fastness of the Adirondacks. . . ." Director Abbott sometimes corralled as many as five poets a day ("undeniably taxing"), and found his largest rewards in New York City, where, he says, poets range "in numbers almost beyond belief...