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...Francisco, Boston, Wichita and dozens of other U.S. cities, Chinese began getting letters from relatives pleading for more money. Mothers, grandfathers or sons wrote that new taxes had been assessed on them, or that they had been fined for crimes against the Communist regime. A 57-year-old woman wrote her son in San Francisco that she had been charged with underpaying the workmen who had built her house 25 years before...
...University of Wichita, which annually names an opposition player as the "Outstanding Sportsman of the Year," picked a man who will not face their team this season. The trophy went to Drake's Negro Halfback Johnny Bright, the target of some unsporting slugging last month in the Oklahoma A. & M. game (TIME, Nov. 5). Out of the line-up with a fractured jaw, Bright has played the last game of his college career...
...Legal Mind. In Wichita, Kans., Louise Bailey filed suit for $10,000 damages against the Berke Bros. Distilling Co., charging that its product incited a male friend to beat...
...highly significant movement." He announced that Federated, the third biggest department-store chain in the U.S., will invest $20 million in a new link of seven department stores, called Fedway, in small and medium-sized cities. First to get the new Fedway stores will be fast-growing Amarillo and Wichita Falls, Texas. After the first seven are finished, Lazarus says confidently, there will be "many more in the West and Southwest...
...salary and $2,500 untaxed expense account (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week seven Democrats and one Republican thought enough of a Congressman's pay and position to fight it out for the seat in a special election. The winner: husky District Judge Frank Ikard, 37, a Wichita Falls Democrat, who worked his way through the University of Texas as a deputy sergeant at arms in the legislature, served as an infantry private in World War II, was captured by the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge. Said Congressman Ikard: "I think I can live...