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Despite his success at breaking down the legal wall of segregation that has long surrounded higher education in Texas, Heman Sweatt, 39, the first Negro admitted to the University of Texas law school, found the study of law a much tougher proposition. Last year he flunked out. But Dean Page Keeton gave Sweatt permission to try once more. Last week, in make-up exams, Sweatt failed again...
Disappointed at his failure, Heman Sweatt is still sure that his time has not been wasted. Said he: "There were no incidents. I may have lost my personal ambition, but I think the manner in which others are getting along with the white students proves it can work...
...people ask for more. But there is a small, hard knot of car cultists who would not be caught behind the wheel of a shiny Detroit model '52. One of these is Ken W. Purdy, editor of True, a magazine that specializes in vicarious thrills for the fireside heman. Purdy began fooling around with vintage and foreign cars in 1946, when new American cars were hard...
More than such a clear-cut reward, the Oklahoman's reporters treasured a note sent by one of the redeemed-property owners to Reporter Van Dyke. "Congratulations on your nerve and efforts to expose this filthy tax resale. Thank God for a real heman, fair and honest...
This week, in one of its newsiest Opinion Mondays, the Supreme Court: ¶ Outlawed the Jim Crow segregation of Negroes in railroad dining cars on interstate trips. ¶ Ordered the University of Texas to admit Heman Sweatt, Negro, to its all-white law school, on the ground that the Negro law school that Texas had set up was not the equivalent of Texas' law school for whites...