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...discreet radio campaign that degenerated into fang and claw stumping, 50-year-old Baptist Dr. Rainey had clapped a Stetson on his bald head and begun calling names in the best southwestern tradition. He had done very well for a professor suspected by Texans of having read John Dos Passos' U.S.A. But, even with the silent support of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and Texas' more than 50,000 voting Negroes, Homer Rainey would have to do a lot better in the Aug. 24 runoff election...
...time usually devoted to children's shows (5:30 p.m. E.D.S.T.). The first discussion urged parents to answer their children's questions honestly, to provide early sex education without fairy tales. Some future topics: "Questions Children Ask and Don't Ask"; "Puppy Love: Dating Dos...
Soon the letterhead of the A.M.C. boasted such names as John Steinbeck, Clifton Fadiman, Walter Lippmann, John Hersey, Howard Lindsay, George Biddle, Christopher LaFarge, John Dos Passos, Margaret Culkin Banning, Robert St. John, Gregory d'Alessio, Gjon Mili. The first stock issue ($100,000) was sold out in eight weeks; a second (for $160,000) will be floated this week, and 20% of it is already spoken...
...hold the book over you, and let the words just pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course in creative writing, limited to 20 select students (among its famed grads: Emerson, Thoreau, John Dos Passos, Walter Lippmann). As a full professor, Spencer will earn $9,600; the Boylston Chair itself pays only in prestige, though legend accords its holder the right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard...
Summarizing his case, the man who reached the White House despite his crippling disease could not help but give his inquirer a series of "Dos" and "Don'ts." The "Don'ts": heavy massage, overexercise, exposure to cold, growing...