Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefree '20s came Gene Austin, asweet-voiced tenor whose story was evocatively told last week on NBC-TV's Goodyear Playhouse. Millions of televiewers had never heard of him, but other millions (over 40) had grown up and fallen in and out of love listening to him sing on records or radio. After thumping a piano in brothels around the country, then touring in vaudeville, Gene began recording, and chiefly between 1924 and 1930 sold 86 million records. Barrel-shaped but still velvet-throated at 56, Tenor Austin, singing the sound track, brought back the nostalgic old daze...
...less unique but still popular off-shoot of the imported transportation mania is the cult of the little car. The little car can be anything from an Austin to a Renault or Volkswagen (never a Hillman Minx, of course); it has unusual features, such as the engine being in back (which makes for question-provoking louvres where the trunk lid should be), or turn signals that point out from the door posts instead of blinking from the rear fenders, lending a quaint, Old World flavor. The real virtue of the little car, of course, lies just in its being little...
Four times in the past 19 years, Austin Attorney Ralph W. (for Webster) Yarborough had glad-handed his way across Texas in tireless battles for state office (attorney general, governor). Four times he failed-and before the last time former Governor Allan Shivers began to call him a "three-time loser." Last week Texas Liberal Yarborough, 53, took a fifth swing, this time at the 21-month, unexpired term in the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Price Daniel-who beat Yarborough for governor last year. Candidate Yarborough hit a home...
...Yarborough campaign headquarters in Austin, his supporters whooped it up as the good news came in, reached their peak when they read a congratulatory telegram from Songstresses Patience and Prudence, whose Texan uncles helped Senator-elect Yarborough's campaign. They talked of sending off a wire to conservative Democrat Daniel, who is no Yarborough fan, simply quoting that line from the P. and P. hit record: "So long my honey, goodbye my dear, gonna get along without...
President Pusey awarded two major University prizes yesterday to Austin W. Scott '37, Dane Professor of Law, and Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor...