Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Fort Worth, newsprint in the piny-woods country at Lufkin, saddles and cowboy boots in scores of small shops, and women's sport clothes in Dallas' burgeoning garment business. The West Texas town of Monahans (pop. 7,000) is popularly believed to produce the nation's healthiest and most intelligent trained fleas...
...Richardson of Fort Worth. Probably the richest man in oil reserves, Richardson is a fiftyish bachelor who lives in the skyscraper Fort Worth Club, with a fine collection of Remington and Russell paintings of the Old West. A barrel-bodied man with sandy hair and a quizzical smile, Richardson drilled many a dry hole, for years lived on credit in a cheap hotel and ate on credit at a drugstore before he hit it rich in 1935. He owns a 30,000-acre island in the Gulf...
Amon Carter, 70, of Fort Worth. Starting as a publisher, Carter branched out to oil, ranching and real estate. His Star-Telegram is the largest paper in Texas; he also recently built a $2,000,000 TV station. He is a friend and business associate of Richardson, and like him, a collector of Western art. Whenever he buys a Remington, he sends another to Richardson, with the bill. A combination John D. Rockefeller and Grover Whalen to Fort Worth, he is an insistent and generous host...
...radio message from Halfway Valley, 180 miles northwest of Fort St. John, B.C., was brief and urgent. An epidemic of diphtheria had broken out in an Indian village on the Stoney River; 50-odd stricken natives needed help at once. From Whitehorse, Indian Affairs' Department Nurse Amy Wilson flew to Fort St. John; Nurse Aileen Bond started out from Dawson Creek, B.C. Last week the British Columbia Health Department released Nurse Bond's report on their three-week-long fight against the disease...
Died. The Rev. Joseph Fort Newton,* 73, rector of Philadelphia's Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, author (Lincoln and Herndon, The Builders, River of Years'), onetime syndicated columnist ("Everyday Religion"); in Merion, Pa. Impatient of denominational differences ("barbed-wire entanglements about the Altar of God"), Dr. Newton was ordained a Baptist, served in several non-sectarian churches, including London's City Temple ("Cathedral of British Nonconformity"), before joinin'g the Protestant Episcopal Church...