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...campus community chest sent him $850; an Austin dowager, $750; a businessman, $800 more. He used these funds for freight-to Japan, Brazil, India, Germany, Liberia, the Philippines. He sent all kinds of books: dictionaries, biographies, encyclopedias, novels. In four years he shipped out 325,000 volumes...
...scarcely has time even to read the letters he gets, or smile at the way they are addressed. Last week he was collecting 14,000 volumes for Austin's Samuel Huston College (for Negroes), which, he heard, was about to lose its accredited standing for lack of a big enough library. And when that job is done Henry Dunn plans to do something about Korea. "You know," says he, "in this country there are enough books to educate the whole world...
...friendly assembly of United Nations delegates met under the shade of apple trees in a Burlington, Vt. garden where Chief U.S. Delegate Warren R. Austin and his wife Mildred topped off the proceedings by cutting their golden wedding anniversary cake. Among the anniversary gifts: a gold thimble studded with diamonds for Mrs. Austin, a pair of gold picture frames from the White House...
Said a Texas legislator at Austin: "An awful lot of stuff hit the fan today. Maybe he shouldn't have said it all-about taxes-but I'm glad he did." The crowd of 25,000 sent him on his way to Houston with a burst of vociferous applause...
Warren R. Austin, U.S. Representative to the U.N LL.D...