Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was nothing comic about his mind. A preacher's son, nephew of U.S. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, John Rice grew up in a family of South Carolina individualists and became one himself, a rebel among rebels. He was a star pupil at Tennessee's famed Webb School, breezed through Tulane in three years, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Then he turned itinerant pedagogue (successively at Webb School, the University of Chicago, Nebraska, New Jersey College for Women, Rollins, Black Mountain...
...Webb. Of the two brothers who founded Webb School, Sawney and John, Sawney became the better known, but John Rice does not think much of him. "All that the founder of a new school needed [in the post-Civil War South]," he says, "was a little.learning and a lot of physical strength. Sawney . . . had both." A tough man, he sometimes came to class with a scratch on his hand and "allowed it to bleed unnoticed as the boys sat in awe at the brave show...
...quiet Brother John ("Old Jack") Webb was the greatest teacher Dr. Rice ever met. Webb had a wisdom bump on his forehead the size of half a walnut, used to sit talking to himself and trimming his grey beard with pocket scissors. He taught Greek, English, history, math, everything -sitting in a split-bottom chair and gently posing riddles to his pupils. Says Dr. Rice: "More Rhodes Scholars came from Webb School than from any other in the world...
Fish Story. In Plainview, Tex., Fisherman J. H. Webb told how he caught a bass, was doubtful about its length, tossed in his line again, pulled out a folding ruler...
...Ralph W. Barnes, New York Herald Tribune; Don Bell, NBC; Mrs. Lea Burdette, PM; Melville Jacoby, TIME; Ben Miller, Baltimore Sun; Webb Miller and Harry Percy, U.P.; Eugene Petrov, N.A.N.A...