Word: amarillo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professional Texan, old-style, is Owen P. White, storyteller. Professional Texan, new style, is Gene Howe, editor of the Amarillo Globe-News, son of old-time Ed Howe, "Sage of Potato Hill" (Atchison, Kan.). Story-teller White lately helped Collier's magazine into a million-dollar libel suit by flaying, old-style, the political monkey-business of Rentfro Banton Creager and other Texas Republicans in Hidalgo County (TIME, Sept. 16). Editor Howe has obtained publicity for his little cow-&-gas town of Amarillo by flaying, new style, such national figures as Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, April...
...Amarillo's three claims to fame are Editor Howe, Soprano Mary McCormic of the Chicago Civic Opera Company who was born there, and one of the world's few deposits of natural helium...
Soprano Mary McCormic, native of Amarillo, Tex., protegee of Mary Garden, sang Juliet sketchily. A few days previously she had announced her engagement to Prince Serge Mdivani, the about-to-be-divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri. Said she: "When I met the Prince I knew I was headed toward Heaven...
...over the country on tours; not special engagements in a few big cultural capitals like Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta and Cleveland where Otto Hermann Kahn's Metropolitan goes; but country-wide expeditions-Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson, Dallas. San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland. Amarillo, Tulsa, Lincoln...