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...went to Brooks Field, Texas, where he managed to get through primary, cross-country, formation and night-flight training before he was washed out as being "unmilitary in character, too individualistic to fit into the Army." Shortly thereafter, Stockly's father, who was ill, took the family to Tucson. With no depression jobs available, Stockly entered the University of Arizona for postgraduate work in French and other romance languages, learned to read French almost as fluently as English...
Herpetologist William H. Woodin III of Tucson, Ariz, is devoted to one of the oddest of odd scientific occupations. Last week he was scurrying round the desert taking the temperatures of Gila monsters...
...Greeters. While the orchestra was proving itself, its members were piling up travel stories. About half of them were in the West for the first time; a good 80% spent hours snapping scenery with their cameras. In El Paso, enthusiastic Texans draped Conductor Monteux in a Mexican serape; in Tucson, a vigilante committee routed Conductor Munch out of his berth and-with assurances that it was the greatest prize within their gift- led him to a tree. slung a rope around his neck and treated him to an honorary hanging...
Then one day Maria Miranda-for it was Maria herself, as it turned out, who had cursed Josefina-sneaked into Chavez' house, shrieked at Josefina: "You will never see again!" and fled. Next morning Joe's wife was blind again. Fruitlessly, Joe took her to witches in Tucson, in Nogales, in Pitiquito, in Sonora and Cavorca, Mexico. Finally Joe went humbly to Maria herself; in her flyblown parlor, with its green altar and its saints' pictures (some laid face down with coins placed against their lips to protect Maria's clients from gossip), Joe begged...
...favored museum. Manhattan's Samuel H. Kress, 89-year-old dime-store tycoon, is one big collector who would rather spread his masterpieces around. In 1939 he gave 375 Renaissance paintings to Washington's National Gallery of Art (TIME, July 24, 1939). Since then, museums in Philadelphia, Tucson, Birmingham, Honolulu, Portland (Ore.). Seattle and Kansas City (Kans.) have been quietly handed some 200 masterpieces from the Kress treasure-trove, with no strings attached. Two of the latest beneficiaries on the list are Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and New Orleans' Isaac Delgado Museum...