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...Southwest Conference, every game is a grudge match. Private Rice carries a finely honed ax for public Texas. Fort Worth's Texas Christian nurses a traditional, geographic hatred of Dallas' Southern Methodist, and the two state schools-Texas and Texas A. & M. -have been slugging it out since 1894. But some of the wildest moments in conference history have been produced by the rivalry between Baptist Baylor and Methodist S.M.U. Arkansas Coach Frank Broyles was an assistant at Baylor in 1947, assigned to the spotting phone in the press box during the S.M.U. game. A few minutes before...
...eight: Baylor, Texas Christian, Rice, Southern Methodist, Texas, Texas A. & M., Texas Tech, Arkansas...
Ralph Washington Sockman moved from his one-room country schoolhouse to Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and the nickname of "Octopus" for his numerous activities. He courted Zellah Endly, violin-playing daughter of a Methodist minister, and married her in 1916. When at 27 he became pastor of what was then called the Madison Avenue Methodist...
Inherent Logic. The Gregg Smith Singers have a fast-growing reputation in Europe, but they are virtually unknown in the U.S. Chicago-born Conductor Smith, 30, who "wanted to be a choir leader for as long as I can remember," established the group at the Los Angeles Japanese Methodist Church in 1955. At full strength it now numbers nearly 60 singers-white, Negro, Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese. Explains pert, pony-tailed Soprano Uta Shimotskuka, 23: "With a good group like this, it was easy to attract many young singers who heard that we preferred Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina and also...
...William D. Maxwell, 61. Recently hospitalized, Maxwell waded selectively through his paper's bestseller list, was scandalized by The Carpetbaggers and Tropic of Cancer. "I found language in there that you wouldn't hear in a men's locker room," said Maxwell, whose father was a Methodist gospel singer. He fired an order to Book Editor Robert Cromie. Henceforth, said Maxwell, the Trib's bestseller list, which is based on sales reports from bookstores, will include only books that pass Maxwell's muster...