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...Young to Vote. When Ike Culp won a seat in the Texas legislature in 1919, Oveta went with him to Austin, never missed a day's session. A solemn-eyed child of 14, she sat beside her father in the turbulent House of Representatives, picked up the nuances of politics and law like a prairie hen picking up seeds. Ike vacated his seat in 1921 and Oveta returned to the life of a schoolgirl, but after Austin, school was a big bore. She frequently skipped classes at Temple High School, though she managed, nevertheless, to lead her class...
...Austin, Oveta Culp grew to dark and serious young womanhood. She went to dances and basketball games with the rising young men of Austin (among her beaux: Silliman Evans, now a Nashville publisher, James Allred, who became governor of Texas (1935-38), but most of the time she was too busy for the flapperish goings-on of the day. Old Ike Culp took to carrying a long-bladed, switchback knife in his pocket, ostensibly to pare his nails, but word got around the legislature that he intended to use it on any young man who attempted to get smart around...
...Hedberg, Worcester, Mass.; Ronald E. Huebsch, Darien, Conn.; Laurence E. Kelly, Watertown, Mass.; John J. McNamara Jr., Boston, Mass.; Donald J. Mulvey, Andover, Mass.; Alan S. Rapperport, University City, Mo.; Marvin Sandler, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert A. Smails, Omaha, Neb.; William P. Travis, Cleveland Hghts, Ohio; John T. Whatley, Austin, Texas; Ralph L. Zani, Worcester, Mass.; Bradford S. Brown, Boston, Mass...
...meeting will be held Sunday at 7:45 p.m. in Mallinckrodt MB-9. Austin Lake, sports columnist of the Boston American will present his views, but debate among the members will follow lines decided at the pre-meeting caucus. According to Hugh J. Schwartzburg '54, member of the Athenaeum Board of Governors, a number of members are prepared to defend some sort of subsidation of football players to improve the team...
...University's present football policy will be under attack at the next meeting of the Athenaeum, next Sunday night. Austin Lake, sports columnist for the Boston Record-American, will speak for the resolution, and Athenaeum members will debate both sides...