Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along University Avenue at the University of Southern California one afternoon last week, some 100 students huddled in the rain, waiting for the voice that would soon come through the loudspeaker. Inside Bovard Auditorium, 1,500 more waited in their seats. Finally, Professor Frank C. Baxter, dressed in a 20-year-old dark blue suit, mounted the podium and took his place behind a-lectern piled with books. As the murmuring and chattering stopped, the professor began to read...
...twelve years, Frank Baxter's annual Christmas readings had become a tradition at U.S.C. A pink-faced, bouncy man who gives the readings his dramatic best, he has had enthusiastic audiences since he began. Last week he went from Dickens to Benchley, from a medieval carol ("From far away we come to you . . .") to Ogden Nash ("Epstein, Spare that Yule Log!"), to poems written by soldiers at Tobruk...
Glasses of Water. Whatever he read, his audience loved it. For that matter, students approved most everything Frank Baxter did, in or out of his Shakespeare class. "If you haven't taken a course from Dr. Baxter," the daily Trojan last week declared, "you haven't been to college." U.S.C. students had voted him the man "who should teach all the classes in the university...
...Overtones. It was not to be a scholar. "I'm just a schoolmaster," Baxter would say. He was also, he would add, "the last of the sentimentalists." To him literature was more than facts and footnotes: "It is all overtones. History is clear cut. Geography stays put. But poetry-that's so different...
...first day he landed at the Dallas airport from New York last September, shock-haired, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Walter Hendl slapped on a cowboy Stetson and accepted appointment as an honorary deputy sheriff. In the next few days he lunched with Fan Dancer Sally Rand at the Junior Chamber of Commerce, judged a beauty contest, went to a Neiman-Marcus fashion show, played jazz piano for the girls at a local prep school and lunched with the Rotarians. For jovial New Jersey-born Hendl, it was all part of his new job as conductor...