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Rocking Along. Mart, Tex., a cotton and corn town near Waco, has lost 583 of its 2,856 citizens since 1940. "We've all grown older and content to be that way," said one town father. "We have as many heads of families as we ever had, but the families now consist of one or two old people." Eight out of ten of Mart's high-school boys go on to college each year; Mart has few jobs for college graduates. For recreation, the youngsters drive 18 miles into Waco. Said J. H. Rogers, local car dealer...
Tireless Traveler Bob Hope breezed into Washington to receive from Secretary W. (for William) Stuart Symington the Air Force's Exceptional Service Award. Symington had just flown back from Waco, Tex., where he received an honorary LL.D. from Baylor University...
...Monty started 27 games, completed 20, won 18. In 1947 he graduated to a Class B league (Big State), won seven and lost seven in six weeks with Waco, then quit...
...first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitants. In Pasadena, the palms were loaded with four inches of white stuff which the residents recognized as snow. San Diego, one jump from the Mexican border, had a little snow too, the first since the earliest weather records (1850). Waco, Tex. had the coldest day (5° below zero) since 1899; Pocatello, Idaho, had the coldest day (31° below) ever recorded...
...Waco, Texas (pop. 56,000) seemed an improbable place for it, to everyone but the citizens of Waco (pronounced Way-co). This week they began a $750,000 white marble building, studded with stained-glass windows, to house the largest Browning collection in the world. The city itself had donated a whole block for it, right next to the Baylor University campus. The man who had made Browning a hero to Waco was Baylor's bushy-browed Professor A. Joseph Armstrong...