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Even more alarming was a subsequent telegram from another friend of the Kir-tons in northern Argentina: "WHEN NEXT WE COME BUENOS AIRES LETS PLAN PAINT TOWN RED." Translated for the police into literal Spanish, this one conjured up a bloody business indeed-a Communist rising, perhaps, or a latter-day storming of the Bastille...
Amon Carter, 70, of Fort Worth. Starting as a publisher, Carter branched out to oil, ranching and real estate. His Star-Telegram is the largest paper in Texas; he also recently built a $2,000,000 TV station. He is a friend and business associate of Richardson, and like him, a collector of Western art. Whenever he buys a Remington, he sends another to Richardson, with the bill. A combination John D. Rockefeller and Grover Whalen to Fort Worth, he is an insistent and generous host...
...from the wings in midweek came the roar of a wounded lion. Fifty-nine-year-old Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior had heard nothing yet about a contract and he thought he should have been approached before "all the small ones." His manager fired off a telegram to Bing demanding to know by next day where Melchior stood. Replied Rudi Bing coldly: "I am not prepared to submit to ultimatums...
...TIME did not intimate that a little tropical fish could ever harm a big, brave newspaper like the World-Telegram...
Like other Manhattan drama critics, the New York World-Telegram's William Hawkins and the New York Sun's Ward Morehouse had often disagreed about plays. Though the merger of the two newspapers (TIME, Jan. 16) had put Hawkins and Morehouse to work for the same boss, they were still sitting on opposite sides of the aisle. Last week, in the World-Telegram and Sun, Critic Hawkins found T. S. Eliot's new play, The Cocktail Party, "wordy, static and depressing, as well as artificially acted . . ."On the same page, Columnist-Critic Morehouse wrote that The Cocktail...