Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mashed Finger. "When I was four," Reporter McCluggage says, "I asked Santa Claus for a doll on roller skates and an Austin." Growing up in Topeka, Kans., she was a determined tomboy, mashed the end of a finger playing softball, and was easily "the best blocking back on the block." At Mills College near San Francisco she won a Phi Beta Kappa key as a philosophy major, and after graduating in 1947 decided to become a reporter. She haunted the San Francisco Chronicle city room for six months before penetrating the conventional misogyny of the craft and persuading the weekly...
...Mims '57, of Briggs Hall and Chicago, Virgil E. Barnes '57, of Adams House and Austin, Texas, and Robert P. Cumming '57, of Eliot House and Davidson, N.C. have won Marshall scholarships for study in the United Kingdom...
...failed, and Republicans were figuring hopefully that the heavy Democratic vote might be so thinly spread among the twoscore Democratic candidates that Republican Hutcheson could skip through with a small plurality. Moreover, while Hutcheson's competition is tough, it is by no means overwhelming. Leading the Democrats is Austin Attorney Ralph Yarborough, a sure vote getter but a chronic loser (three times for governor, once for attorney general). And Liberal Yarborough is bound to lose chunks of the conservative vote to ex-Congressman and Red-Hunter Martin Dies...
Crusading Spirit. Though once renowned for their timidity, many weeklies have developed the crusading spirit that has vanished from many a fat-cat daily. In the two years since the Austin Texas Observer (circ. 6,347) was founded by Editor Ronnie Dugger, 26, it has played a leading role in exposing Texas' insurance scandals. Santa Monica's weekly Independent, in competition with a local daily as well as the Los Angeles press, has become one of the biggest U.S. weeklies by giving readers four-alarm coverage of gambling and other crimes that it charged were ignored...
Texas. Former U.S. Senator Price Daniel, taking over a scandal-splotched administration from Governor Allan Shivers, invited Evangelist Billy Graham to Austin for a precedent-making prayer breakfast, at which Democrat Daniel announced that he would apply "Christian principles to problems of government and politics." His ambition, even greater than being President of the U.S., said Daniel with tears welling in his eyes, "is to be a good governor for all the people of Texas...