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After graduating from college in 1937, he coached Petoskey (Michigan) High School until 1941, when he entered the Army. He was Post Director of athletics at the Amarillo, Texas, Army Air Base, and also coached the football team there. Following his Army discharge in 1946, Sebo went to the University of Michigan, where he received his master's degree the same year. Then he took over at Alma...
...East last month to take a scholarship at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, Florence Iva Begay, a Navaho girl, had gotten the Jim Crow treatment in a bus near Amarillo, Tex. Shocked and scared, she went back to the reservation (TIME, Oct. 11). Last week, as she was playing the piano for a service in a little Protestant church in Flagstaff, Ariz., an invitation arrived. How would she like to fly to the big Tri-State Fair at Amarillo, with all expenses paid? Amarillo wanted to "open its collective arms and heart" to Florence, so that she would...
Said Florence: "I'm not mad at Texas at all because of what happened before. I think the people of Amarillo are swell. . ." But she was not planning to resume her interrupted trip East. She had enrolled in Arizona State College...
...Eisenhower, 29 students from Europe and the Middle East set off on a tour of the U.S. During the next 24 days, they slept in farmhouses and penthouses, ate at Antoine's in New Orleans and hot-dog stands along the road. They wore beanies saying "Welcome to Amarillo," collected cowboy hats and corncob pipes, celebrated Bastille Day in Mississippi. They appeared on 30 radio programs, traveled 6,180 miles, posed for pictures with local mayors and circus freaks, sang Chattanooga Choo Choo in Chattanooga, saw sausages, newspapers and automobiles being made...
Said the irate Amarillo News in an editorial: "Here seems to be the real cause of juvenile delinquency ... So the parents can't budge the children, eh? And as a solution they [try to] fire the duly elected authorities who made the rules .. . We came up in a generation when a certain part of the rebellious child's anatomy would have been blue." At week's end, over half of the 130 students were still out on strike...