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Attracted to politics at 14, when he served as a page in the Texas legislature Homer worked his way through the University of Texas Law School as a deputy sheriff. He was elected to the state legislature in 1936, later became Travis County district attorney. After a 3½-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

Three pitchers hurled for the Crimson. Lew Shea took credit for the win and Travis Cook, who relieved him in the fifth, got the save.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Performances Pace Trackmen Past Tigers; Baseball Team Downs Exeter Nine in Hitter's Duel | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

CRIMINAL JUSTICE End for a Klan Klawyer Whenever Ku Klux Klansmen needed legal aid in Mississippi, they invariably turned to Lawyer Travis Buckley. A cocky, stocky, pugnacious little man with jug ears, Buckley, 35, was chief defense attorney in last October's trial of Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, Neshoba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: End for a Klan Klawyer | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

Highbrow Respectability. Folklorists are quick to point out that Watson's stylings are far from pure. He readily admits that his songs and techniques were as much copied from early listening to radio and records as they were derived from the folk around his Deep Gap, N.C., birthplace. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Champion Country Picker | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

Today, four Vanguard records and over 300 tour dates later, Watson is located dead-center in the forward thrust of country music toward highbrow as well as lowbrow respectability. The very impurity of his style, coupled with the exhilaration his work generates, goes a long way to accomplish this aim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Champion Country Picker | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

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