Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club's ill-fated production "Fiesta." Miss Gloria Braglotti has been secured to "execute the exotic, primitive dance which climaxes the siesta scene in the play," and F. A. Pickard was in the cast for the world premiere. Eugene O'Neil bad called "Fiesta" the best example of Mexican peon life he had ever read; the author was even journeying to Cambridge to see his play staged. But the long arm of decency stopped in after several complaints from spectators that the play was "crude and immoral." Three days after it opened, the mayor of Boston banned the production...
Mexico's famed resort city of Cuernavaca, balmy and scented with jasmine and heliotrope, has just the atmosphere for languorous relaxation. As the 45,000 Mexican inhabitants pad about the streets, busily putting things off until mañana, many of the 5,000 U.S. residents take their ease in elegant villas with lush gardens, shady patios, gemlike swimming pools and high pastel walls...
...which he is proudest is New York's Presbyterian Hospital, where be spent a two year interneship after graduating from Columbia Medical School in 1916. Ferry also found time to get married in 1916, and even made an expedition with General Pershing's National Guard unit to the Mexican border, where Poncho Villa was shooting up local villages. During one of the skirmishes, Ferry recalls, a stray bullet whizzed past his nose, pierced the head of a mule standing next to him, and stopped only when it hit a pack of cigarettes in a sergeant's pocket...
...interest in Taylor Oil & Gas, and with Sid Richardson, he controls Kirby Petroleum in Houston. Other interests: a restaurant in California, a club building in Denver, a small newspaper in Texas, a Tennessee motel, Easy Washing Machine of Syracuse, a curb-service grocery chain in Dallas, a Mexican silver factory, and a big chunk of Missouri Pacific bonds...
...other Texas oilmen, Clint Murchison has also wet his feet in politics. An early Eisenhower supporter, he financed a pro-Ike campaign paper in Texas with Richardson. He has also been a vocal and financial supporter (for about $40,000) of Senator McCarthy, and has entertained him at his Mexican ranch. Murchison once said: "I like Joe McCarthy. He's done the greatest possible service to his country." Recently, he has cooled somewhat: "I was for him and still am, but with more reservations...