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...tell the people that we can no longer afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child." He evoked the memory of one of his great-grandfathers, declaring that because of low teacher salaries his ancestor, even though he was the third president of Baylor University, had suffered financial penury, had had to borrow $300 from Sam Houston "at 8% interest...
...they have nobody to match the point-scoring potential of the Los Angeles Lakers' Jerry West and Elgin Baylor, the playmaking abilities of Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas. Out of the Celtics' starting five, only one player - Guard Tom Sanders - is under 30. Except for Forward Sam Jones, who has been averaging 25 points a game, the Celtics do not have a man among the top 15 scorers in the National Basketball Association. Center Russell, four times the league's Most Valuable Player, has been complaining of a mysterious stomach ailment. Forward Tommy Heinsohn...
...Baylor University's Dr. John Knox is convinced that if as much money were put into syphilis research as went into research on polio - which did not kill or cripple as many people - a vaccine could be found in a few years. But the spirochete of human syphilis is a maddening germ that refuses to grow in the test tube or in most animals. And syphilis research is under way at only four or five U.S. medical centers...
...Sleepy People and So Bears My Heart for You flowed over the operating room in Houston's Methodist Hospital. But the patient on the table, His Royal Highness Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, was already going under the anesthetic. Baylor University's famed surgeon Dr. Michael E. DeBakey was scarcely listening as he performed an operation that only a few years ago would have seemed dangerous indeed. He slit open the 70-year-old duke's belly and cut down to the aorta, the body's main artery, on which...
Money flowed like ballpark beer. One promising collegian reportedly returned to his dormitory room to find $25,000 in cash laid out neatly on his bed. When the Green Bay Packers lost out to the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers in the bidding for Baylor End Larry Elkins, Packer Coach Vince Lombardi cracked: "We missed by a couple of hundred thousand." The New York Giants went all the way to $100,000 to land Auburn's rugged (6 ft. 2 in., 221 Ibs.) Tucker Frederickson, the "big back" that Allie Sherman wanted in order to beef up the Giants...