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Please accept my congratulations upon your accurate story about Professor Joseph Armstrong [TIME, May 17]. I am one of the "thousands of Baylor students who have taken his poetry course on Robert Browning," and I have never forgotten the pleasure and privilege. Through your [story] I once again relived the days when, as Dr. Armstrong puts it, I was "under the drippings of the sanctuary...
...everyone but the citizens of Waco (pronounced Way-co). This week they began a $750,000 white marble building, studded with stained-glass windows, to house the largest Browning collection in the world. The city itself had donated a whole block for it, right next to the Baylor University campus. The man who had made Browning a hero to Waco was Baylor's bushy-browed Professor A. Joseph Armstrong...
...years, thousands of Baylor students have taken his poetry course on Robert Browning, and most would never forget it. Peering down at his class from his lecture platform, Doc Armstrong was a lordly figure, with a voice that shook the windows. Sloppy recitations enraged him. "Mush!" he would cry at a mumbling student; sometimes coeds fled the room in tears. Students feared him, but were fascinated; they came in flocks...
...Their coach, heavy-jowled Adolph Rupp, hadn't even bothered to get a scouting report on the enemy team. Kentucky was dangerously cocky-with the N.C.A.A. championship hinging on the game. And before anybody had a chance to work up a sweat, Kentucky had scored 13 points to Baylor's one. There just wasn't anything that Baylor could do about 6 ft. 7 in. Alex ("The Nose") Groza, Kentucky's star center, whose head seems to threaten the mezzanine. He sucked in rebounds like a vacuum cleaner. He was swift afoot and deadeyed. Final score...
Vienna-born Dentist Bernhard Gottlieb and three colleagues at Baylor University reported a treatment which they claimed was even better than sodium fluoride: a solution of zinc chloride and potassium ferrocyanide, which plugs microscopic cracks in the teeth against bacterial invasion...