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...have often seemed to agree with the lawmaker who cried in 1856 that "universities are the ovens to heat up and hatch all manner of vice, immorality and crime." As though to cool the oven, Texans planted the main campus only a few blocks from the state capitol in Austin. Politicians have seldom left the faculty alone. As recently as 1959, legislators introduced a bill requiring all state teachers to swear belief in a "Supreme Being." It was their notion that the university swarmed with "atheists," who must be Communists...
...acts was getting raises for about half the faculty; full professors now earn as much as $20,000 a year. And in marked contrast to the Wilson regime, facultymen now feel free to speak out on such Texas-ticklish subjects as integration. When students recently began stand-ins at Austin's segregated movie houses, 192 faculty members openly endorsed the movement with signed statements in the student newspaper...
...student at the University of Texas when he signed on as a campaign aide to a promising candidate for Congress named Lyndon Baines Johnson. Connally has been Johnson's man ever since. After a term as Johnson's secretary in Washington, Connally took up law practice in Austin and eventually struck it rich as a friend and confidant of Texas' Big Rich oilmen. (After he moved to Fort Worth in 1952, he did legal spadework for the late Sid Richardson and is co-executor of the multimillion-dollar Richardson estate.) In appointing Connally for Johnson...
...three-ring circus that is California Democratic politics. Born in Jacksonville. Ill., Ed Day was brilliant enough as a law student to become editor of the Harvard Law Review (1936-37). After graduation, he went to work in one of Chicago's biggest, best law firms (Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Harper), married Mary Louise Burgess, the boss's daughter. At work he became fast friends with a partner in the firm named Adlai Stevenson. After wartime service on Navy subchasers, Day went briefly back to his Chicago practice, quit in 1949 to help out Old Friend Stevenson, newly elected...
...Freshmen selected were: Stephen B. Adams of Wigglesworth and New Canaan, Conn.; Christopher T. Barrows of Straus and Milwaukee, Wisc.; Paul Horvitz of Huribut and Santurce, Puerto Rico; and Edward P. Legg of Wigglesworth and Austin, Texas...