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Quick to honor a hero, quick to resent a slur are the rangy sons of the Lone Star State. Last week, quickened by both these emotional spurs, hot-hearted Texans rallied in droves to the banner of scholarly, pious Homer Price Rainey, president since 1939 of the sprawling University of Texas at Austin. Balding, unprepossessing Dr. Rainey, who worked his way through school and college to become one of the leading U.S. educators, was locked in battle with the Texas Board of Regents...
...Saipan did not give them while sleeping or, as you say, freezing in their foxholes. We know that our division is one of the best fighting units in this area and wish to have it proven otherwise. We feel that someone should set the public right on this slur to our fighting ability...
...TIME certainly intended no slur to the 27th Division's brave dead or to its embattled G.I.s. Neither the Army nor the Marine Corps has made an official report on the action. Fact remains that the Army relieved many 27th Division officer during and after the Saipan battle...
Britons, privately seething, for the most part held their peace in public. But the London News Chronicle's Edward Poor Montgomery blazed away at the State Department's "slur upon the discretion and loyalty of both British officials and journalists." His prime points: i) Washington has leaked more diplomatic news than London; 2) the London leaks, as the State Department very well knew, had come from sources entirely outside the British Government...
...quick corrections. Tennessee's bulb-nosed Kenneth McKellar interrupted Butler's oratory to set the cost of Good Neighborliness at $2,207 million. Few hours later, Interamerican Coordinator Nelson Rockefeller totted it up, got less than $600 million. Henry Wallace summed up: "fantastic figures ... a shocking slur...