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Clark Gable, making his first public appearance since he was placed on the Army inactive list, was mobbed a la Sinatra by 500 screaming women who chased him through Hollywood's NBC studio. Said he: "They scared hell out of me. I was planning on a steak at the Brown Derby. ... I settled for a ham sandwich at home...
...going to fight you like hell," Regent H. J. Lutcher Stark told Rainey in 1940 when the latter refused to remove three members of the faculty without a hearing. "I doubt the wisdom and propriety of you, as president of the University, urging or suggesting that a member of the Board of Regents refrain from doing anything whatsoever," wrote Regent D. F. Strickland in 1943 to Texas' president. Under the Board's rules a university president is supposed to be the professional adviser to the Board, but for several months Texas' Regents excluded President Rainey from their...
...Boiling Pot. Said Frederick Duncalf, faculty committee head, "The fat's in the fire now." "It's hell," agreed alumni spokesman Robert Bobbitt. On the Texas campus, 6,000 irate students promptly cut classes, shouldered banners proclaiming NO CLASSES TILL RAINEY; RATS AND REGENTS LEAVE A SINKING SHIP. Dark-clad and solemn, they marched in a parade twelve blocks long to plant in the Capitol rotunda a crepe-draped coffin labeled "Academic Freedom...
Take It Easy. Her legend is prodigious. Once she went to Agua Caliente with Columnist Louella Parsons and Husband Docky Martin. In the gents' room of a Caliente tavern, Docky became involved with several brawling Mexicans. Miss Parsons, hearing the rumpus, asked Florabel what to do. "Hell," shouted Florabel, "rescue the poor bastard!" Forthwith, she dived into the room, grabbed Docky by the arm and hauled...
...with experienced newsgatherers. Last week, tired, ailing, beaten for the first time, she announced she would shut up shop on Armistice Day. Said she: "I was having a talk with my croaker the other day. He says, 'Florabel, your ticker ain't worth a pot in hell-you take it easy.' So I guess I will...