Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like too many documentaries, this one would be monotonous if it did not convey a charm which the audience feels increasingly as the picture progresses. Gunsbach looks as friendly and quaint as the post-cards of Spring in Alsace, but Schweitzer's narration tells how he grew up in the village, and this village lives for the audience. Sensitive shots of Lambarene's patients: a tired woman nursing a tired baby; a disarmingly attractive child with leprosy; men scratching their bottoms because they itch; all add to the charm...
...area than in the 29 counties where the sale of hard liquor is legal. Last week, in an eleven-part series that marked the first time any Texas newspaper had ever published a searching, statewide report on the social effects of the state's alcoholic schizophrenia, the Houston Post (circ. 201,647) stirred the biggest uproar among dry voters and wet drinkers since Texas adopted its local option...
...Post series, which started out by branding Texas-style prohibition "a giant illusion," was written by James Mathis, 32, a Post reporter who has won two state journalism awards for exposes of Texas housing and insurance swindles (TIME, Jan. 16, 1956). Mathis traveled 3,500 miles to get the story, downed enough illegal highballs to give readers a detailed, hard-hitting account of police corruption, judicial laxity, millionaire mobsters and juvenile crime...
...three letters of protest for every letter of praise. Most influential critic of the series was the Rev. Texas Gulp, Baptist minister and peripatetic protagonist of the state's leading prohibitionist society, Dallas' Texas Alcohol Narcotics Education, Inc. Culp said that he would demand space in the Post to present the dry side of the case; critics of the series also insisted that the exposé must have been bootlegged into the paper without being checked by the publisher. Publisher of the Post: Oveta Culp Hobby, first (1953-55) U.S.Health, Education and Welfare Secretary and sister of Prohibitionist...
Death Confirmed. George Sessions Perry, 46, towering (6 ft. 5 in.), Texas-born National Book Award-winning novelist (for Hold Autumn in Your Hand, in 1941), who covered the North African campaign in World War II for The New Yorker, wrote 145 stories and articles for the Saturday Evening Post (including many of the "Cities of America" series and a description of his fight against crippling rheumatoid arthritis); when his unclad body was found in a tidal stream near his home, two months after he disappeared (police theorized that he drowned himself; he had told friends that he heard voices...