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Brann kept his sharpest sting for "the blatant jackasserie" of Waco's entrenched Baptists and their "storm center of misinformation," Baylor University. He needled the local Baptist press for "ladling out saving grace with one hand while raking in the shekels with the other for flaming advertisements of syphilitic nostrums." He riddled one proposal that Baptists do business only with Baptists. He ridiculed Waco's Sunday blue laws, mocked how the town fretted about liquor sales while it licensed prostitutes. He seized avidly on the scandal of a 14-year-old Brazilian girl who, studying at Baylor...
Hypocrites & Deadbeats. When friends of Baylor denied the girl's charge and pictured her as a wanton, Brann let go with everything in his arsenal. He sneered that Baylor had "received an ignorant little Catholic as raw material and sent forth two Baptists as the finished product." He flayed it as "a manufactory of ministers and Magdalenes" and "worse than a harem." A mob battered Brann, almost strung him to a tree on the Baylor campus. Two men died in a gunfight over his charges. But he kept returning to the attack against "splenetic-hearted hypocrites and pietistical deadbeats...
...town's mood grew uglier, and Brann began carrying a pistol. Late one April afternoon, as he walked down the street, a man named Tom Davis, who had a daughter at Baylor, whipped out a pistol and shot Brann in the back "right where the suspenders crossed." The editor whirled and fired again and again while Davis pumped two more bullets into him. Within hours, though he took his killer with him, Brann was dead...
...million Cullen Foundation for charitable and educational purposes, gave $25 million in all to the University of Houston, along with 7,000 acres of oil lands, made it almost singlehandedly the nation's fastest-growing. Once, witnessing Houston's football team slice up rival Baylor University, 37-7, he exuberantly wrote out a $2,250,000 check, charitably consoled Baylor with $1,000,000 a week later. Politically conservative, he hated "creeping socialism," admired extravagantly the late Joe McCarthy. Full of crotchets, he once told his children: "Use your money to make others look as well...
...skill at playing basketball. Hot Rod, when he puts his mind to it, can do anything-dribble, shoot, pass and play defense-with the casual assurance of a pro. In three seasons he has scored more than 2,000 points. Baylor, is a skillful, 6-ft.-4¾-in. Negro with so much polish he is sometimes too good for his teammates-his needle-threading passes often catch other Seattle players off guard. His rebounding always dominates the backboards, and his offensive skill is so sure that he presses for shots...