Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Stassen ran for Governor in 1938, against Farmer-Laborite Elmer Austin Benson, the red hair on his big head had begun to turn sorrel and recede. By that time he had perfected all he had learned about politics in college. To his natural informality was added a slow grin which revealed one snagged, gold-edged front tooth. Backed by Minnesota progressives and a rowdy, pistol-shooting, horse-riding organization from the South St. Paul stockyards, called the "Hook 'Em Cows," he won the election, became the youngest Governor...
Robert Hodes, Austin Teaching Fellow in Physiology at the Harvard Medical School; Ph.D. Harvard; Medical Sciences...
...politics, new to public affairs, he made many a boner. Texas newspapers duly reported the boners. For the capital reporters at Austin, O'Daniel's press conferences were circuses in which they fed their victim mock questions and played up his answers as gags. Governor 0'Daniel was distressed but helpless. Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy had been his campaign theme song; the correspondents made him out a puling Pappy who could not grasp even the elementals of applied political pap. But the Governor, despite all his campaign japery, took his office seriously, trusted in simple faith...
...edge. The images of the sun and moon are nearly the same size in the sky, but the distance of both bodies from earth varies slightly, and the size of their apparent disks varies accordingly. April's annular eclipse begins in the Pacific, crosses the southern U.S. -darkening Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Pensacola, Tallahassee, Savannah, Jacksonville-and ends in the Atlantic (see chart}. Texas' McDonald Observatory, which is 50 miles from the shadow path, will send a party into the path near the Mexican border to study infra-red radiation from the bright ring around...
Soon it looked as if Producer Jed Harris had won. Then things began to happen. Harris and Hemingway couldn't agree on revisions, and Harris checked out. Austin Parker (a former husband of Miriam Hopkins) took a $1,000 option on the play, died a few days later. From then on The Fifth Column was batted around the market; finally Hemingway threw the script on the shelf...