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FLEMING H. JAMES Waco, Texas...
...Ella Fondren has given far more than money to the causes she serves. Every Christmas she takes a load of silver dollars to the orphans of Waco, each week observes a "hospital day" when she tours the Methodist Hospital to find out if anything is needed. She has visited medical centers all over the U.S. to see if her own hospitals have the latest equipment, is always on hand for the annual Fondren Lectures at S.M.U. Says the Rev. Dawson Bryan, former pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Houston: "She attends more committee meetings than anyone...
...library at Rice Institute. It helped build Houston's Methodist Hospital, and it also helps support Episcopal St. Luke's. It has done everything from building a gymnasium for the students of Houston's Kinkaid School to founding the Methodist Home (for orphans) in Waco and giving Houston's Texas Medical Center an Institute of Religion...
...Whim of Iron. In Waco, Tex., after she overturned her car, Mrs. Mimmie Moore Richardson was jailed for drunkenness despite her pronouncement to arresting officers: "This is my automobile, and it is my prerogative to turn it over where and when I please...
Died. Madison Alexander Cooper Jr., 63, Waco (Texas) bachelor who managed his family's real-estate fortune, courted "a string of widows," in his spare time turned out (1952) the lusty, lengthy (two volumes, 1,731 pp., 840,000 words) novel, Sironia, Texas, which told in raw, unselective detail everything that happened in 20 years to some 30 major characters; of a heart attack in his auto after completing his thrice-weekly, mile-long jog around the Municipal Stadium track; in Waco, Texas...