Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Convention. Houston Lawyer Malcolm McCorquodale reported on Brazos County in southeast Texas. Said he: "The county chairman was a Zweifel henchman. He looked over these delegates and he saw he was going to get outvoted, so he just refused to call the meeting to order . . . He ran the delegates off the premises, held a county convention all by himself, elected himself delegate to Mineral Wells; he was seated at Mineral Wells, and cast the entire five votes for the county himself...
...authorized: 96), but the cost of Amerika ($150,000 last year) was well below the magazine's authorized budget of $500,000. She also launched other projects, including Yugoslav and Arabic editions of Amerika and a new magazine, Free World, now published in eleven languages in southeast Asia, plus propaganda comic books and numerous pamphlets...
...year 1951-52 saw the reactivation of several additional alumni Schools Committees, bringing the total to more than 50. Kinnicutt noted a "distinct increase" in activity and interest among committeemen in the last year. The main problem areas for the alumni are still the Southeast and sections of the Far West. States like Kentucky, Arkansas and Nebraska have few College graduates, and most of the University alumni show little interest in the College. Areas like California and Texas have a different situation. Here, even when the Committees are well-manned, they must compete with excellent institutions like California and Stanford...
Window's Way, by James Ramsey Ullman, preaches humanity. The hero, Dr. Windom, is a dedicated medical missionary in a remote corner of Southeast Asia. Inevitably, he gets caught up in a struggle between the wicked reactionary government and the ruthless Communist guerrillas. Windom's problem is what to do when the government troops retreat. Shall he retreat with them, or stay on, in Red territory, and do what he can for the peasants? His wife deserts him, and friends misunderstand him, but Dr. Windom, caring more for people than for isms, decides to stick...
Regional Public Service: WSB & WSB-TV, for "promoting the best interests of Atlanta, Ga. and the Southeast" in WSB's The Pastor's Study and WSB-TV's Our World Today...