Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born: 1896, at Kaposvar in southwest Hungary, son of a Calvinist peasant farmer (though Hungary is 66% Roman Catholic, the Calvinists are an important (21%) minority.) Early Days: after commercial school, became a locksmith's apprentice, then a mechanic. When World War I broke out, big, burly (200 lbs.) Imre was drafted into Austro-Hungarian army, wounded on Italian front, later captured by Russians, who sent him to Siberia. When the Czarist regime cracked he joined the Bolsheviks, was captured while fighting White Guards, escaped. Carried revolution to Hungary as minor lieutenant of famed Hungarian Communist Bela...
...Southwest's two top teams met last week when Texas A. & M.'s rugged squad took on Texas Christian's poised veterans. T.C.U. was a solid favorite to win. For most of the game, played in a driving rain, T.C.U. made the oddsmakers look good. The Aggies were bottled deep in their own territory by fumbles, threw back repeated T.C.U. goal-line assaults, finally yielded a touchdown on a pass play in the third quarter. But then A. & M.'s little (150 Ibs.) Halfback Don Watson, who beat T.C.U. last year with...
...York Evening World's hard-boiled Charles E. Chapin* and one of the few city editors in newspaper history who could write a decent paragraph. Last week, a successful rancher and freelancer at 57, Walker turned up in Dallas, 140 miles from his ranch, at the Southwest Journalism Forum. In a rattle of pronouncements on the state of U.S. journalism, he proved as tart as ever. ¶On "objectivity" in newswriting: "It produces something like a symmetrical pile of clam shells with all the succulent goodness carefully removed...
...Southwest of Minneapolis, 72 stores opened their doors at $20 million Southdale, first U.S. shopping center to be completely enclosed (largely under glass) and weather-controlled...
...Chicago, Commonwealth Edison's Chairman Willis Gale, head of the private group building the 180,000-kilowatt Dresden reactor 50 miles southwest of Chicago, told the Atomic Industrial Forum the plant would furnish power at a cost of about three-fourths of a cent per kilowatt-hour when completed in 1960. Said Gale: "This is about the same as the cost of power produced by our newest coal-fired plants." Utilityman Gale acknowledged that in computing the Dresden figures he disregarded the initial $15 million expended on researching the plant, explained, however, that the second, third and fourth reactors...