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...greatly improved the orchestra during his 51-year tenure, he also proved himself hopelessly alien to the strange culture of the far west. He called Houston "Hooston," and his chauffeur, in poetic inability to say "Maestro," called the boss "Moscow." When Sir John arrived, things were different. Anglo-Texan friendship was immediately established...
...John thrives on Texas. He and Lady Barbirolli make do in a Texas-rococo garden apartment and his favorite photo shows him wearing a little Western tie with "GO TEXAN" written on it. The ladies all declare themselves bewitched by him ("He's so wonderful, especially after Stokowski") and turn up in high fashion for his concerts. On anniversary night last week, all were in their places to hear Sir John conduct a sparkling Cockaigne Overture, a disappointing Death and Transfiguration, a warm and distinguished Beethoven Seventh. Sir John's greying mane shook in a fury of excitement...
...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. Savata Drew turned from dancing in a strip joint to becoming the most successful bishop in a Negro evangelical sect in Brooklyn. White Texan William Goyen tells her story with sympathy...
...Biggest Brain." Under such pressures, Korth was known to be considering retirement-but not involuntarily. A hearty backslapper with a booming voice, Korth, 53, had political ambitions. He envied the success of fellow Texan John Connally, who preceded him as Navy Secretary before quitting to run successfully for Governor of Texas. An Assistant Secretary of the Army in 1952-53, Korth got the Navy job on the recommendation of Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric and with the approval of Vice President Lyndon Johnson, for whom Korth once served as a Fort Worth campaign manager in a Senate election...
...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. A white Texan peers behind the facades of the store-front cathedrals in the Negro ghettos of great East Coast cities and finds a world of religion, chicanery and entertainment that only Negroes know from the inside. The novel's heroine, part prophetess, part charlatan, is all woman...