Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lecturing his way across the Deep South, suave, wavy-haired Archduke Otto von Habsburg passed a night at Meridian, Miss.'s Lamar Hotel. After he left next day the management got a frantic letter from his secretary. Count von Degenfeld: would they please forward pronto to Austin, Tex. a nightshirt-snowy broadcloth and with Habsburg crest on the pocket-which His Royal Highness had left behind...
...busy propheteering for Moral ReArmament to write his stockbroker father oftener than every six weeks (and then in letters "full of religious fervor"), elegant little British Davis Cup Tennist Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin suffered public paternal rebuke. Cried Austin pere to London's press: "I have not answered his letters because there is nothing I can usefully say. I have been told I ought to be proud of Bunny for his good work. I should be much prouder if I were taking him to Buckingham Palace to receive...
...spent 1920-21 as a ranch manager, the only white man on his uncle's 200,000 acres. But his career since then has been academic: as head of the English department at Oklahoma A. & M. and, since 1925, at the University of Texas in Austin, where he was the first native Texan to get above an instructorship without a Ph.D...
...Austin B. Mason, Jr., chairman of the Smoker Committee, said last night that the outcome of he poll was a "fine indication" of the spirit of the class, and predicted that class support would make the affair "a whale of a show...
Divorced. William du Pont Jr., 46, banker-sportsman member of the Wilmington Du Ponts; from Jean Austin du Pont, his wife for 22 years; for cruelty; in Reno. Brushing aside questions about whether he meant to marry Tennist Alice Marble, Banker du Pont rushed to pack his bags, fly to see his Fairy Chant lose the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...