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...nation's top-notch football coaches, Dana Xenophon Bible. Last week, having a swank campus and the beginnings of a football team, University of Texas set out to make itself an important educational institution. It hired as president (salary: $17,500) a top-notch educator, Homer Price Rainey, 42, director of the American Council on Education's Youth Commission...
Husky Dr. Rainey is renowned as a crack investigator and organizer, a liberal educator with a leaning toward the arts, an able administrator. After graduation from Austin College (Texas), he played professional baseball in the Texas League. At 31 he was president of Franklin College (Indiana), four years later became president of Bucknell University. After four years there, he began in 1935 to investigate problems of U. S. youth as head of the American Youth Commission...
University of Texas' new president is Texas-born, married to one of the university's alumnae. To Dr. Rainey, who is just as concerned about boys and girls who do not go to college as about those who do, his new job is attractive for another reason. Last year the university established general culture courses for "average citizens," youngsters who do not want to study for a degree. At University of Texas, "average citizens" may take any courses they like, quit after two years...
...rise under the wing of Senator Guffey lasted until two years ago when, at the Philadelphia national convention, Jim Farley learned that many a Negro preacher disapproved of Publisher Vann. Named in his place to lead the campaign of 1936 among Negroes was his distinguished friend, Lawyer Julian D. Rainey of Boston...
...Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge in a red gown with a white dog and I am opposed to giving him this commission." Other Congressmen, quite willing to pose as art critics, called Mr. Christy the greatest living portrait painter, panned his portrait of the late Speaker Rainey, called one of his paintings a "garish nightmare," said he had a "flamboyant style," painted charming magazine covers, that his portrait of Mrs. Coolidge was no credit to her, and besides, the money was needed for relief...