Word: plainsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saddle, and for 40 years a professor at the University of Texas, is also his generation's foremost philosopher of the frontier, and the leading historian (The Great Plains, The Texas Rangers) of the American West. At 71, he has been made the hero of a sort of plainsman's festival of letters-a collection of his occasional essays (An Honest Preface; Houghton Mifflin; $3.75), trimmed with the personal tributes of his Texas friends. Says his old friend and cultural sparring partner, J. Frank Dobie, the famed Western folklorist (The Mustangs, The Voice of the Coyote): "Webb...
...Without even giving him a hearing, President Ralph Draughon of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute bowed to the will of his trustees, summarily sacked Assistant Professor of Economics Bud Hutchinson, 36, for writing a letter to the undergraduate Plainsman praising the progress of integration in New York City's public schools. Said the president: "In the light of the emotions and tensions over this question in Alabama. I felt that Mr. Hutchinson could not expect to advance his career at this institution." Obviously, retorted Hutchinson, "professors who dare to perform their function of providing information do so at the peril...
...Soto Adventurer, a low-slung two-door hardtop which will develop 320 h.p. against the standard 255 h.p. Chrysler's other entry of the week: an experimental two-door station wagon, the Plainsman, featuring a rear "observation car" seat, facing backwards, so that its two passengers see not where the car is going, but where it has been...
...feel of the Williston Basin area, Miller spent several days in North Dakota last month. The first person he met, after checking into the Plainsman Hotel in Williston, was a Texan who said he was "looking over a few farms to pick up a lease or two." When he learned that Miller was with TIME, he said: "You fellows wrote me up once." The Texan, it turned out, was Dallas Insuranceman Robert Baxter, who had made this exultant boast in mid-1948: "This is a great world, and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas...