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Baptist Harry Truman was all set to receive an honorary LL.D. degree from Baptist Baylor University, of Waco, Tex. But from the Texas Baptist General Convention in Forth Worth last week came 4,500 "nays." Said the chairman of the convention's Civic Righteousness Committee in explanation: "No Baptist school should confer a degree on a man who likes his poker and drinks his bourbon. I know that we all agree that no man-even the President of the United States-could be a good Baptist and drink his liquor...
Pshaw. In Texas, a WASP, flying a ferry route, got so hot even at high altitude that she stripped to the waist, hung the garments on a peg, lost them to the wind, radioed Waco for help, was met at the field by a ground crew with averted eyes and a WAC bearing a shirt...
Japan admitted another execution of U.S. prisoners. A year after the deed, the Imperial Government announced (through the International Red Cross) that it had done to death three Navy men captured on Bataan and Corregidor. Japan named them: Marine Sergeant Joe B. Chastain of Waco, Tex.; Marine Corporal Victor Paliotti of Cranston, R.I.; Seaman First Class Ferdinand Frank Meringolo of Brooklyn...
...repeated the trip to Texas. Jones Connally, husband No. 2, became the father of Tom, of six daughters and another boy who died in infancy. After fighting through the Civil War, Father Connally settled down to raising cotton on the good black dirt of the Brazos valley near Waco. He prospered. But Tom, born in 1877, had to do his share of barnyard chores and pulling Johnson grass. He grew up hearing his father say over & over: "Tawm, I never had a chance for much education. If I'd had your chance, I'da gone to Congress...
From a "little ole red schoolhouse" through Baylor University at Waco to the University of Texas for a law course, Tom did well at his books. Otherwise he failed to distinguish himself much. He acquired a couple of nicknames: "Double-Barrel Shotgun" Connally, a tribute to his skinniness, and "Talking Tom," a tribute to his wagging tongue. His college days were briefly interrupted when he volunteered for the Spanish-American War; but his regiment saw no action. Settling down to law practice in Marlin (pop. then: 3,092) after the war, he found business none too brisk. Soon...