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...Died. Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, 88, playwright (La Malquerida) and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1922; of a heart ailment; in Madrid...
...pose for an intimate picture snapped in the bathroom of his Washington home, where he lathered up his heavy beard for a shave. Meanwhile, some 600 University of Texas students rallied in protest against the choice of McCarthy "to speak for Texans" at the state's hallowed San Jacinto Day celebration on April 21. In Manhattan this week, the Senator, recovering from laryngitis and a virus bug, got back in voice to describe the nation's Red peril to Francis Cardinal Spellman, who, with about 6,000 New York City cops, roundly applauded McCarthy at a communion breakfast...
...justice left in their veins, wrote Little, they would organize "a posse of Cadillac owners" to invade damyankee-land and free Conley. Exclaimed Little: "It is Texans like Conley who add scent to the magnolia, color to the red hibiscus, juice to the grapefruit and stature to the San Jacinto monument...
When the University of Houston started out as a four-year institution in 1934, it had 909 students and one big shack on the San Jacinto High School campus. It also had one unusual asset: Vice President Walter W. Kemmerer. A Ph.D. from Columbia, Kemmerer was a blunt go-getter who thought he knew exactly what sort of university Houston should have...
Since that day, Oilman Cullen has never stopped helping the University of Houston. When he began, the university was only three years old-a former junior college that had 1,300 students, 55 teachers and a single wooden shack on the San Jacinto high-school campus. By last week, when the university totted up its 1951 enrollment, even the eyes of Texas were wide with wonder. Houston announced that it had 13,541 students (second only to the University of Texas), a faculty of 513, a 260-acre campus. Thanks largely to the Cullen bounty, it was the fastest-growing...