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Sound & Fury. In Hughesville, Pa., the citizens voted to legalize local drinking after a hard-fought campaign during which the drys rang the town's church bells every hour and Anti-Prohibitionist Richard Schaeffer tooted his sawmill whistle every half hour...
...with Juanita, the name of the first Culp daughter. Mother Culp is a remote cousin of Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover; at 72, she still leads an active life in Killeen, fishing, gardening, and driving her own Buick. Ike Culp was a rawboned, fiery-tempered lawyer, a Baptist, a Prohibitionist, a politician and a lover of horses. As a skinny kid, Oveta became Ike's undisguised favorite, absorbed his love of horses and politics. On summer evenings, Ike Culp liked to stand among his horses and, cracking a whip, make them gallop around him in circus-ring precision...
Died. William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, 86, tub-thumping Prohibitionist, lecturer on the evils of liquor and presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket (82,000 votes) in 1932; in Glendale, Calif. Vice President of the Georgia Anti-Saloon League, he went to Congress from Georgia in 1919, served four terms in the House. At the age of 72, he was ordained a Baptist minister and continued his attack on liquor from the pulpit, this year completed a lecture tour in 22 states and seven European countries...
This did not mean that Conant's regime was going to be a prohibitionist one. Less than a month later the University itself applied for and received a license to sell beer in the dining halls, and the Second World War put an end to his mountain-climbing expeditions, but since the war he has continued, as he says, "in the hobby of walking uphill." His other outdoor recreation at present consists of trout fishing. Last summer's trip to Australia and New Zealand was a disappointment to him only in that it was winter Down Under and the fishing...
...brought to Conant's attention and he immediately issued a statement: "I am ruling that no student may bring in any beverage of any sort whatever to the dining halls to be taken with his meals." This did not mean that Conant's regime was going to be a prohibitionist one. Less than a month later the University itself applied for and received a license to sell beer in the dining halls, and on January 4. 1934 liquor was served to undergraduates by the University for the first time in over 100 years. By the end of his first years...