Word: oles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.). The Du Quoin State Fair in southern Illinois presents Grand Ole Opry Night on "Country Music at a County Fair," amid horse racing, the midway and prizewinning heifers...
...response to Hee Haw seemed ho-hum in Nashville-the holy see of Grand Ole Opry and country show biz -then it seemed likely that the cast would be greeted anywhere else in America by bags of chicken feathers and cauldrons of tar. In a TV summer season stolen by Armstrong and Aldrin, the show's only acknowledgment of the moon was the crescent-shaped opening in its prime prop-an outhouse. Had the public outgrown that sort of thing? And would TV viewers be turned off by the program's shameless plagiarism of their No. 1 favorite...
Morse, whose father was once Senator Theodore Bilbo's law partner, began by recruiting several bright young Yale-trained lawyers for his faculty. To combat Ole Miss's "provincial outlook," he got the Ford Foundation to put up $500,000 for hiring more Yale teachers, plus 30 visiting lecturers from Harvard, Columbia and N.Y.U. The Morse mood attracted speakers like Charles Evers and Robert F. Kennedy, whose jibes at Governor Ross Barnett were cheered by 4,500 rebel students, among them sons of Mississippi's leading segregationists. At one point, the Ole Miss law school enrolled...
...reaction was swift. Angry legislators complained about "socialistic, if not Communistic doctrines at the law school." The state board of higher education pressured Ole Miss Chancellor Porter L. Fortune, who then ordered all law teachers to choose between the school or the OEO. Last year two professors quit-and now Morse too has given in. Last week he moved to Tallahassee to become dean of Florida State University's law school. When asked about his decision to depart, Morse was brief and bitter: "I got a better offer...
Toward the end of Morse's tenure, virtually any offer might have looked attractive. While most other law faculty members recently received salary increases, he was pointedly denied one. When the state bar association held its annual gathering in 1968, he was not invited to speak-though the Ole Miss law school dean is traditionally a major figure on the program. The trustees began screening his faculty appoint ments, vetoing some of the men he felt would be most valuable. Morse did little for his cause with his abrasive, arrogant approach toward the old guard. He called one influential...