Word: paso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1946 Granz has run successful nationwide tours (up to 57 cities) every year. One reason for his success, as Granz sees it: "I give to people in Des Moines and El Paso the kind of jazz they could otherwise never see or hear." He also believes that he has learned as much as any living man about scaling a house, i.e., deciding how many seats to price at $4.80, etc. "You can't get piggish," he says. "On the other hand, you can't be easy. I've got a sixth sense about...
Willing to Travel. In El Paso, Mayor Fred Hervey pondered a letter from a London divorcee who, in order to get to the U.S., was offering her services as a "nanny, cook, housekeeper, farm manager, secretary or general factotum," and would even accept a husband "as a last resort...
Colors & Clothing. The son of a Mexican cattleman who lived in El Paso, Rivera himself learned no English until he was eight (he now speaks seven languages). He knows, better than most El Paso citizens, how formidably high is his city's language barrier, which splits the town into a Spanish-speaking (65%) v. an English-speaking (35%) community. Relatively few El Pasoans speak both. For example, in the city's Bowie High School, under Texas law, English is the official school language. But a large proportion of Bowie students, those of Mexican descent, rarely speak any English...
...orita. The lessons were soon the talk of El Paso. Some parents, embarrassed because their kids casually chattered with maids whom the adults falteringly addressed in crude "kitchen Spanish," persuaded Superintendent Brown to start grownups' classes in conversational Spanish. Under Brown's guidance, Rivera has branched out into radio & TV programs aimed at putting thousands more in the area on a bilingual footing. This year Dr. Brown assigned two more classroom visitors (a señora and a señorita) to the circuit, which now takes in the second grade. In six more years, progressing one grade...
Last week, after opening a class for mothers at the local women's club, Carlos Rivera was planning to teach his techniques this spring in nearby towns, and next summer at New Mexico Western College. With 1,672 of El Paso's first-and second-graders already learning two languages, Rivera was glancing fondly at next year's kindergarten pupils, who will learn their "Pasen ustedes" along with their "Excuse me, pleases...