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Texas' Galveston, once a pirate hideout, has earned an equally robust reputation in recent years for freewheeling vice, gambling, prostitution and illegal liquor traffic. The Galveston papers, the morning News (circ. 17,510) and evening Tribune (circ. 11,909), both owned by 87-year-old Financier W. L. Moody Jr., do not get excited about it. They take the view that the wide-open situation is what Galveston wants; any change should come at the polls, not through their crusading. But their little brother and Galveston County neighbor, the Texas City Sun (circ. 4,573), which is also owned...
...Rare. Last week experts in tropical medicine meeting in Galveston, Texas held a forum to tell all that they had learned about toxoplasmosis in the 15 years since the Manhattan baby's death. The main thing was that it is by no means as rare as doctors once thought. Though it escaped detection in animals until 1908, and in humans for almost another 20 years, hundreds of cases have now been recognized in the U.S. alone...
Mice & Men. Nobody knows how growing children and adults get the disease (mice are suspected of transmitting it), or why some victims get an acute infection while others have a milder form, often localized in the eyes. Pathologist Helenor Campbell Wilder presented positive data to the experts in Galveston: in 53 cases where a supposedly tuberculous eye had been removed, toxoplasmosis was found. Victims were 14 to 83 years old; some had had symptoms only a few weeks, others as long as 32 years...
Died. Rabbi Henry Cohen, 89, for 64 years spiritual leader of Galveston's Temple B'nai Israel, whom Woodrow Wilson called "the First Citizen of Texas"; in Houston. British-born Henry Cohen came to Galveston in 1888, soon became famous for scurrying through the streets and stopping to jot down on his long, white cuff ("my notebook") the names of those he must help, regardless of creed ("There is no such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict...
Mitropoulos and La Scala had worked hard to make Wozzeck a success. When Italian sopranos showed little interest in learning the exacting role of Wozzeck's faithless mistress Marie, Mitropoulos gave it to Soprano Dorothy Dow, of Galveston, Texas. The part of the plodding, unhappy Wozzeck went to Italian Baritone Tito Gobbi. Milan admired them both. Another successful touch was the scenery; instead of going in strong for realism, Designer Gianni Ratto made his sets shadowy and changeable, to keep the audience under the emotional spell of Berg's music...