27 Feb 1941
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1941
Page
1
A reflective column discusses spring weather and lingering wartime concerns, notes battles past and postwar recovery, and questions social experiments. It mentions Hemphill County roads, a Fat Stock Show bull shipment, and plans for a wheat year while profiling Bill Gunn and Old Tack. The piece includes letters about columnists, travel notes, and local mayoral chatter, concluding with a moral about taking time to live and dream.
The article notes Proc tor's Indiana Sam a premier stud dog at Pampa owned by John Studer and Bud Martin with a four generation pedigree including Champion Seaview Rex Peggy Mac Head Play Champion Com ranche Frank Helen Ferris and more. It also touches on vanity and social quirks and various trivia from hunting to industry. It mentions Life Magazine schedules and Woolworths store policy along with army training and a Harvard geography test failure.
Berlin reported that Nazi authorities doubt large scale parachute and swift boat landings by British agitators in the Netherlands. A spokesman said only limited effectiveness and that Dutch disturbances, though deadly and leading to a military admin in North Holland, are not a major political shift. In Amsterdam and Rotterdam clashes left six dead and several wounded as German police faced civilians.
Jerry Belcher, co creator of the Vox Pop and Interesting Neighbor formats, will move to Amarillo to join KGNC staff in sales and production. He first conceived the idea in Houston in 1932 with Parks Johnson, later taking it coast to coast on NBC. Belcher, 21 years in media advertising, returns to the Southwest after a year away due to a serious auto crash.
Sculptor Beniamino Bufano unveiled a glass bear statue for the University of California symbol amid playful chaos. He then left to serve as a dollar-a-year government employee, borrowing syrup for his waterless home. Playwright William Saroyan, planned to attend with a poem but got lost. Bufano praised simplicity and determination, while a comrade quipped about his skill to sculpt a photographic bear.
Wayne Clifton as principal faces layered conflicts in a school stage production. Henry Aldrich student is tangled with a music teacher pushing musical adds and a history professor resisting persecution as plans unfold.
Acclaimed sculptor Bufano departs for Chicago to join Nelson Rockefeller's defense agency handling commercial and art relations among the American republics. The government will cover expenses, but Bufano seeks upfront funds as he continues working since his WPA firing for rejecting conventional shapes.
Clifton directs Henry Aldrich in a light comedy set in Principal Clifton's office at Central High. Henry schemes to attend the Spring Dance, faces detention and theft accusations, and ends up expelled as the play unfolds. Tickets on sale at Cretney Drug. student 35 cents, adult 50 cents. Season tickets honored.
More than 100 couples attended the folk dance class last night in the Herring Hotel ballroom marking the end of a two day period of American and Spanish American instruction led by Jim Crosslin of El Paso. The WPA recreational personnel coordinated the event and plans are in place to invite Crosslin back for further instruction as civic leaders professionals and WPA personnel enjoyed the sessions.
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