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Most doctors scoff when patients turn to quacks or unorthodox practitioners. Instead of scoffing, Dr. Beatrix Cobb, research psychologist at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, determined to find out why patients do it. The people she questioned, reports Dr. Cobb in the current Psychiatric Bulletin, divided roughly into four groups...
...Communist membership in the U.N., the President also named five alternates, including re-appointments for James J. Wadsworth, brother-in-law of Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, and Mrs. Oswald Lord, 1952 co-chairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower. The three new alternates: Wright Francis Morrow, 61, wealthy Houston lawyer who backed the Texas Democrats for Eisenhower; Ade M. Johnson, 58, director of labor and industry in the state of Washington; Roger Williams Straus, 62, a New York industrialist (American Smelting & Refining Co.) and co-founder of the National Conference of Christians and Jews...
Hotelman Conrad Hilton, who hates to pass up a good deal, last week was busy roping still another hotel into his bulging corral. Hilton announced that he had bought Houston's lavish (TV, air conditioning, Muzak, a 165-ft. swimming pool), 1,100-room Shamrock Hotel, opened in 1949 by Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy. The seller was the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which took over the $21 million hotel in 1952 as part payment on a defaulted $34 million loan to McCarthy Oil & Gas Corp. Equitable's price to Hilton: $18 million, including $7,000,000 for 500 surrounding...
BILL STALNAKER Houston...
HOUSING PROJECT, one of the biggest in U.S., will be built on the outskirts of Houston by Millionaire Home Builder Frank Sharp. Project will have 15,000 homes, also parks, office buildings, two country clubs, will cost $200 million. Sharp announced that the first 1,000 homes (three-bedroom brick veneers, about $12,000 each) will be ready in January...