Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Maverick in a Trap. Last week, 250 students organized a torchlight parade, marched to Professor Pancho's house to say goodbye. The university's respected Historian Walter Prescott Webb called upon Painter to rehire Dobie. "The truth of the matter," said he, "is that Mr. Dobie has walked with stubborn unconcern into a trap...
...summer of ripening on the big-time Eastern tennis circuit had done wonders for California's easygoing Pancho Gonzales. Last week, on successive days, he vanquished three of the game's brightest stars-Jaroslav Drobny, Bob Falkenburg and Frank Parker-to reach the semifinals of the Pacific Southwest tourney. Then he went down before 26-year-old Ted Schroeder, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, who in turn bowed to Big Jake Kramer, the champ...
Since Davis Cuppers Kramer and Schroeder plan to join up with the pros before the year is ended, Pancho at 19 is obviously a rising amateur who bears watching. Long out of favor with Southern California's amateur tennis czar Perry Jones because he wouldn't stay in school (TIME, May 19), Bad Boy Pancho is now behaving himself. As a result, he no longer has to play on public courts, enjoys the luxury of the swank private tennis clubs that Jones controls...