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...with life," he recalls. "I was struck by the awareness that rocks, man, animals, ideas all come from one source." The working out of this personal vision has, in the years since he has come down from his heights, established Callahan as one of the artists (along with Mark Tobey and Morris Graves) who make the school of Northwest Mysticism the most commanding regional art movement in the U.S. today...
Died. Frank T. Tobey, 64, mayor of Memphis since 1953, spearhead of the campaign in the South against the proposed Dixon-Yates power project; of coronary thrombosis; in Memphis...
While the ruckus about the Dixon-Yates power contract roared on in Capitol Hill committee rooms last week, the President of the U.S. and the mayor of Memphis met at the White House for a sensible discussion of the question. Democratic Mayor Frank Tobey told President Eisenhower that Memphis is wholly sincere in its plan to build a steam plant that will replace the power drawn from the Tennessee Valley Authority by the Atomic Energy Commission. By building its own plant, Memphis will be assured of power without Dixon-Yates. Since this fitted the Eisenhower policy of local rather than...
...congratulate Memphis' Mayor Frank Tobey for having returned the original name to glorious Beale Street...
Memphians and tourists alike have deplored the change. Touring Comedian Danny Thomas added his lament to the rest. In Memphis he dashed off a song Bring Back Our Beale Street Blues, a couple of nights later sang it to 15,000 cheering Memphians. Mayor Frank Tobey took the hint, promptly presented an ordinance to the city commission. Next week, after the third official reading, Beale Avenue will once more become Beale Street...