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...another aspect of Texas, the three tourists made a shopping tour of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus specialty store. In San Antonio they talked to Tom Slick, the young Texas oil millionaire who is pumping much of his fortune into three scientific research foundations. One of the foundations has worked out a new construction technique which Slick thinks might revolutionize the building industry; another has figured out a new method of artificial insemination which will permit scrub cattle to give birth to purebreds. All Texans-from college presidents to cattlemen-took their abundant energy and confidence for granted. Dallas Banker...
...Stanley Marcus, balding boss of the Dallas-in-Wonderland Nieman-Marcus specialty shop (its specialty is selling chichi clothes to rich Texans), went the Chevalier Award of the French Legion of Honor, for "eminent services to the cause of French industrial and commercial recovery...
...Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) saw the Roman Empire begin to crumble about him in war, invasion, pestilence and revolution. A great Stoic, he wrote: "Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name . . . Why then dost thou not wait in tranquillity for thy end?" The U.S. Navy, contemplating the atomic age, last week achieved a comparable attitude...
Tonight at 8:30 in Sanders Theater, the Music Department presents the second in its series of free concerts this term. Pianists Robert Cornman and Leonid Hambro will play with Alfred Howard and Abraham Marcus on percussion...
Blum's candy had been always handmade. As a result, such stores as Dallas' Neiman-Marcus and Manhattan's Lord & Taylor never had enough to satisfy the customers. Says Fred Levy: "We planned it that way. We make everybody want it, then make it hard...