Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houston, Tex...
Determination and scholarship are bred in the Baten stock. Anderson's greatgrandfather was hard-driving Colonel Ephraim Williams who founded Williams College. His father was president of struggling little Howard Payne College at Brownwood. Tex. But Anderson Baten describes himself as simply "a corn-fed country boy from Texas who doesn't know whether he's coming or going." His youthful ambition was to be a champion weightlifter. When he was 23 he performed the terrific feat of raising a 250-lb. dumbbell above his head. Satisfied with that, he turned to literature. Before he started reading...
Engaged. Sarah Brisbane, daughter of Hearstman Arthur Brisbane; and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary Jr., Yaleman (1932), onetime editor of the Yale Record, onetime New York World-Telegram copy boy, now sportswriter for The Literary Digest...
...Dallas, Tex...
...hunting expedition out of Uvalde, Tex., John Nance Garner shot a deer, became lost, climbed a tree, plunged ten feet into thick brush. Nursing scratches and a sprained knee, he limped into camp 300 yd. away...