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...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 on the campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of Professor Pancho | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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