Word: waco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newest novelists to arrive on the Texas landscape is Madison Cooper of Waco-and he has come in like an oil well and come in big. Novelist Cooper is crude, all right, and he is such a wasteful gusher that it seems scarcely worth while capping the flow between the covers of a book; but he spews out so much of the rich stuff that he is very likely to flood the U.S. book market in the weeks before Christmas-if he doesn't scare most of the customers on to higher ground...
Texas & Korea. Heading west, Eisenhower traveled across his native Texas, saluted by cheers and chants of "Happy Birthday." At Waco he recalled a recent speech in which he had said that unless there is a change, the Government would be telling the housewife how to wash her dishes. Well, he had hit closer to home than he realized, because "look at what I found out: the Department of Agriculture . . . has already prepared a 32-page booklet on the subject of dishwashing. Now, someone whose salary is paid by the taxpayers' money made a remarkable discovery . . He says dishes should...
...miss classes"). To earn money for his collecting, he started the Armstrong Educational Tours, raised a fortune for manuscripts, first editions and such items as Browning's ring and snuffbox. The collection is now housed in a $2,000,000 Renaissance library on the Baylor campus at Waco, Texas-"a place," said Dr. A., "where young people can meditate on great thoughts . . . the most beautiful building in the world...
...years of the 20th century. Sentimental and nostalgic, it contrasts the old South with the new Southwest, lets its young hero illustrate the sound, old-fashioned theme "that it's what you put into life that matters and not what you try to grab out of it." Waco folks will undoubtedly be looking for themselves and their neighbors among the book's huge cast of characters. Cooper says they'll have no luck: all of his people are made up, "and I like some of them better than I do my friends at home...
Captain with a Memory. Cooper graduated from the University of Texas in 1915, and was a captain of infantry in World War I. After the war, he plunged into the business and social life of Waco, where his father was a wealthy wholesaler, but it was not quite enough. He began to write slick-magazine stories-"the kind that not even a Texan would brag about." But he was serious enough to take correspondence courses in story writing from Columbia University. Nothing much came of it for a long time, though Cooper discovered that "I have a freak memory...