Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quibbler's truth about its literary worth. It is in the quality of featured creative writing that the publication's distinctive claim to excellence must lie. This time the copy looks good; and it is well above the average in published collegiate work. But "Burnt Mountain Revival," by William Austin Emerson, nearly overshadows its lively picture of hell's-fire-and-brimstone religion with contrived hillbilly dialogue ("Hit's a rite purty night, ant it,' Homer said, laying the paddle across the boat. 'God, he don't like a lot of rumpus, else why's it so quite out here...
...Heman Marion Sweatt, a studious mail-carrier, who was refused admission to the University of Texas law school at Austin because of his race (TIME, March 11, 1946). The new Negro university has a faculty of 85, but it has no law school. Besides, Sweatt planned to continue his court fight for admission to the University of Texas. He was convinced that the new university did not meet the "equal facilities" requirement laid down by a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1938. Apparently no one else thought so, either. Said Acting President Allen E. Norton, a Negro: "Institutions...
...likely to be something sort of sectioned. For those who are already action in NSO and have kept informed of the successive stages of its growth, the current Progressive provides generally cans and constructive reading. But the uninitiated will find it only slightly more interesting and lively than Austin's "Juris-prudence...
...Boite of Quitandinha, a hotel and onetime gambling casino in the cool mountains north of Rio, the top brass of hemispheric diplomacy will meet to put the Chapultepec agreement into permanent, postwar treaty form. Secretary of State George Marshall will be there; so will Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Warren Austin, U.S. representative to the U.N. and Texas Democrat Senator Tom Connally. President Truman might show...
...which is crammed with lore under such titles as "Uncle George Edgin's Recollections of Frontier Texas," "The First White Child Born in Texas," "Snakes and Whiskey" (the story of frontier medicine). Last week, its 43rd issue, written by and for the children, was in the works at Austin. Says Professor Webb proudly: "By gosh, we've done...