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Indiana's ham-handed Homer Capehart, the phonograph tycoon, could not wait to don the toga. Six weeks before his senatorial term begins, he bustled into Washington, promptly called a press conference. To newsmen, he was vague on one subject-his international views. He was more specific on another: his Senate committee ambitions. He has his eye on such topflight assignments as the Finance, Commerce, Naval and Military Affairs Committees. On each of these subjects, he confided modestly, he is something of an expert. Back in their offices, the 15 newsmen who had shown up for this "sneak preview...
...York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Homer Bigart, who covered the Italian campaign, described his reactions last week to fighting in the Philippines...
Texas last week furnished fresh evidence of what happens to a state-university president who fails to dominate, conciliate or knuckle under to his political superiors. At a State Senate investigation of the ouster of University of Texas' earnest, liberal President Homer P. Rainey by the politically-appointed Board of Regents (TIME, Nov. 13), Regent Orville Bullington, a rich cattle and oil man, belatedly produced what he apparently considered conclusive evidence of ex-President Rainey's incompetence...
...Time for Timidity. Onetime pro ballplayer, onetime Baptist minister, Homer Rainey felt that he had been pushed too far. At a special faculty meeting on Oct. 12, he made an hour-long speech, cataloguing his troubles with the Board. "The whole matter boils down to two major issues," he said: "The issue of the freedom of the University . . . and the issue of the recognition of the proper relationship between a governing Board and the executive and administrative officers. . . ." He hoped the breach was not "so wide ... it cannot be healed...
...University Dr. T. S. Painter accepted "under protest" the proposition of acting president. On the campus the Lone Star flag hung at half-mast. Said Homer Price Rainey, "I have great faith in the future of the University of Texas. . . . I'm going to take a good rest and get in some fishing...