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...them-and for equally confused readers-Author Firmey, whose newsy style testifies to the years he spent as a reporter for the Tucson Star, offers an explanation of sorts. His shaggy-dog story is followed by a 20-page catalogue that lists all the male, female and child characters, animals, artifacts and edibles and even the contradictions that appear in the course of the story, an "explanation of the obvious" that as Finney himself insists, must be read to be appreciated...
...Tucson, Ariz...
...just told them they looked great." In carrying out his philosophy of wealth ("If you've got money, spread it around"), Jackson finances a home for delinquent boys in Tempe, Ariz., where he lives in the offseason. He plans to open a ranch for the same purpose near Tucson. Last year he gave the car he won as best player in the World Series to a Chicano and Yaqui Indian community organization in Tempe. Jackson's generosity is an extension of his religious beliefs. He is a Methodist who rarely attends church at home, but he organizes...
Some of the larger cities, which don't naturally lend themselves so well to crew races, will require some rechanneled and diverted rivers, and possibly a few well-placed dams. Then franchises in such rapidly growing cities as Phoenix and Tucson, and the as-yet-untapped Death Valley Market, will fit well into the pro crew circuit's national scheme...
Died. Lewis Williams Douglas, 79, former Democratic Congressman from Arizona and Ambassador to Great Britain from 1947 to 1950, following a long illness; in Tucson, Ariz. Born in a frontier mining camp, Douglas went East to be educated and then worked briefly in his father's copper mine before entering politics. Douglas served in the House from 1928 until President Roosevelt appointed him Director of the Budget in 1933. After 18 months, Douglas resigned in protest against New Deal fiscal policies but continued to commute freely between a lucrative business career in New York and Arizona and Government service...