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...there was nothing surprising about the tribute to Ella Cochrum Fondren-or about her reaction to it. The widow of one of the founders of the Humble Oil & Refining Co., she has spent a lifetime giving her time and money to Texas institutions, but in refreshing contrast to the flashier philanthropists of oildom, she has always insisted on staying quietly behind the scenes. Those who honored her last week at first despaired of getting her to the ceremony at all. Says Methodist Episcopal Bishop A. Frank Smith of Houston: "We practically had to drag her into the hall...
...Peekaboo!" "Recognition doesn't mean so much," says Hopper. "You never get it when you need it." But unlike some flashier reputations, Hopper's held once he got it. He has been top-rated in American art for three decades now. has been heaped, rightly, with honors and awards. The awards have not impressed him. He seems more concerned over the fact that some critics seldom mention him ("It's as if they were embarrassed, or something"). His only comment on the Whitney Museum's great retrospective of his work, staged in 1950, was that...
Tenley and Miss Heiss rate even in the free skating; though Miss Heiss probably is the flashier and more daring skater, Tenley is conceded greater form and finesse...
There was a special point of interest in this year's competition: Which would show up better, the reliable old B-36 (introduced in 1946), now on its way out as a combat weapon, or the flashier, faster (upwards of 600 m.p.h.) B-47? Last year the B-36 scored higher. This time the top SAC strategists staked their hopes and reputations...
...wage-cut vote was good news for the company, Studebaker had some even better news for its workers. With costs lowered the company plans to put present employees, now working about halftime, on a 40-hour week. And next year's cars, said Hoffman, will not only be flashier and more powerful, they will be about $100 lower...