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...spring of 1950 Jack K. Daiton, who had served four years with the Army Engineer Corps in Europe and the Pacific, was digging up research for his Master of Arts thesis at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He picked art education as his subject and looked hard for ways to get contemporary material. He hit on one way when he read the TIME cover story on Pablo Picasso and other School of Paris artists (June 26, 1950). Why not, he wondered, ask the leading painters of that group to suggest ideas and sources? He wrote to TIME to explain...
...chorus, 28 well-scrubbed boys (9 to 15) from Tucson, Ariz., nodded solemnly, got into their costumes: choral robes in three shades of blue, covering western denims and cowboy boots beneath. Onstage, they froze their eyes on their austere boss and began singing. They piped sweetly, if a little uncertainly, through such concert showpieces as Stradella's Pieta Signore, Bach's Suscepit Israel and Mozart's Alleluia. Then they shed their robes. For the rest of the program, the boys sang one song each of Debussy and Handel, a group of folk songs and westerns punctuated with...
British-born Eduardo Caso, 50, moved to the U.S. in 1930, sang on the radio for a while, then came down with tuberculosis and went to Tucson for the cure. Says he: "For two years I did nothing. And then I decided I had to make money. I opened a singing school and rounded up the best boys I could find and began training them. At first the town wasn't very cooperative, but they're coming around now." Caso gives his boys six hours a week of rehearsal, stresses one thing above all: "Discipline. Discipline first, relax...
...Annapolis, Princeton's Bob Brawner the 200-yd. breast stroke, in a dual meet with Navy, to set a new world's record for a 20-yd. course: 2:16.6 (old record, set in 1939 by Princeton's Dick Hough: 2:19.8). ¶ In Tucson, Lloyd Mangrum in the Tucson Open golf tournament, with an 11-under par 269, for his second big win of the 1951 winter circuit (the first: the Los Angeles Open...
Back on his ranch at Sonoita, near Tucson, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Lewis Douglas, boss of one cowhand, a string of horses and 400 head of cattle, felt well enough to take on a community job. Cattle-raising neighbors elected him chairman of their rainmaking committee, then hired a California rainmaker to help break the drought...