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...Frank Dobie is a maverick and a Texan. He can quote Wordsworth or Shelley at length-but he is also a he-man who once ran a 250,000-acre ranch. At the University of Texas, where he has taught for 28 years, Dobie likes to be called Professor Pancho. His lecture preambles-"Now, I'll tell you a little story of Liver-Eating Johnson . . ."-have delighted thousands of students. He refused to move into the new skyscraperish university tower. "It looks like a toothpick in a pie," he said, and opened an office in the oldest building...
Professor Pancho had other irregularities that Texas University's Board of Regents liked less. As friend and supporter of ex-President Homer Price Rainey, another maverick, he long ago earned the regents' enmity. Rainey refused to be bossed by the regents, would not remove John Dos Passos' U.S.A. from the library shelves, would not dismiss teachers whom the regents considered leftist. When Rainey was fired, three years ago, Frank Dobie told a Kiwanis meeting that "no self-respecting, able member of the present faculty would serve as president. But the regents will have no trouble finding...
Diamond Dust. Fashion Is Spinach, wrote Designer Elizabeth Hawes (in 1938) in a maverick mood. But to the fashion magazines the sand in he spinach is diamond dust. Last year, Vogue and Harper's made more money than ever (for Conde Nast Publications and Hearst, respectively). Their circulations (Harper's, 225,000, plus 39,000 British; Vogue, 304,000, plus 100,700 British and 12,000 French) are at an alltime peak. Recent issues have been skinnier than last year's ad-fat ones, and to cut costs Vogue recently cut its output from 24 issues...
...very firmly pointed out that at the rate of $1 billion a year it would take 259 years to wipe out the debt.* He thought the Senators ought to do it faster than that. He was calm: before the session, he had taken the precaution of lining up maverick Republicans on his side. He also knew Democrats would be with him, if only to embarrass Taft. A trifle grimly, Colorado's Eugene Millikin suggested a $2 billion tax payment as a compromise. Taft retreated to the $2 billion figure...
...matter how much opposition, Maury would run a good race. Something had gentled the old Maverick. He was something to see and listen to. Last week a businessman in the crowded lobby of The St. Anthony Hotel told him: "I never did vote for you in my life." In the old days, Maury's reply would have been: "No, you son-of-a-bitch, and I don't want you to vote for me now." But this time he said: "Maybe you did right. I made a lot of mistakes. . . . But now I'm for what...