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Solemnly stepping through their paces, the Senators first received the House-passed Marcantonio bill, which would outlaw the poll tax in eight Southern states. On cue, bombastic old Tom Connally rose up to shake his grey-white mane and speak his piece about States' rights. "Because my own State of Texas does not conduct its affairs as the State of New York thinks it should conduct them," he declaimed, "these crusaders, these Sir Galahads, mount their steeds and come down into Texas to modify us, and to Christianize us, and to liberalize us, and to modernize...
Last fortnight two of the most combustible personalities in Cinema, airminded Multimillionaire Howard (The Outlaw) Hughes (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) and gadget-brained Preston (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) Sturges (TIME, Feb. 14), announced their cinemanschluss. A new studio was born. Hollywood braced itself for the sort of thing that happens when hydrogen and a match flame meet...
...still something of a frontier town. Governor Warren recalls the day as a child when he was riding his donkey down the main street and ran spang into the running gun battle in which Deputy Sheriff Wil liam E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, was killed by an outlaw. (Thirty-five years later, Earl Warren's father, who had branched out into real estate, was found murdered in his Bakersfield home. The crime is still unsolved.) Young Earl Warren started his working life as a call boy, waking up railroadmen on time. Then he was a newsboy...
Meanwhile, college football stalled. Lieut. Colonel William J. Bingham of Harvard, chairman of the intercollegiate rules committee, announced that rules are frozen for the war. His staidness ignored cries from coaches and spectators to outlaw out-of-bounds kickoffs and drop restrictions on quick passes...
...promoted a few times, he picked up a new hobby: training race horses, particularly has-beens. Year after year his broken-down nags won purses for him (one big grey won 16 out of 20 races, after Sprague bought him for $175, pulled a tooth that had made him "outlaw" when the bit touched...