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...Rayburn took time out for an act of simple kindness. With his office full of Congressmen, job-seekers and admirers, Rayburn got an apologetic telephone call from Ohio's freshman Representative Thomas Ludlow Ashley. Ashley's 87-year-old grandmother was in Washington to see young (32) Lud sworn in. For more than 40 years Sam Rayburn had been one of her political heroes, and she wanted to meet him. Said Sam: "Delighted. Bring her down." He talked to the old lady for nearly half an hour. When the chat was over, Rayburn had won the unswerving loyalty...
...developing "a perfect passion for earning money, don't care much how I earn it." A fling at acting didn't help, but soon her stories under the name of Nancy Boyd broke the pinch of poverty. By 1920 magazines were competing for her poetry: "Oh, Lud! Have you noticed how Vanity Fair is featuring me of late? They just can't seem to go to print without me. And the New Republic is writing to me in longhand begging for a crumb of verse." From that time on, she could publish just about anything she wanted...
...Conference secretary was a Southerner-Rev. Dr. Lud H. Estes of Memphis. Booming out a point of law, Dr. Estes forgot himself, said: "As the old nigger says, 'I don't want to seem to be persnickety, but. . . .' " He stopped short. Two Negro delegates-one of them Florida Educator Mary McLeod Bethune-started for the platform to demand an explanation. Blushing, Dr. Estes seized a microphone, said: "Coming from the Deep South as I do, perhaps I am prone to use such words without realizing that they may give affront. I will say to the Conference: when...
With a new faculty committee to pass on the eligibility of players and a new coach (Harvey Harman, replacing Lud Wray), Penn came up against one of the strongest teams in the West-Wisconsin, which had beaten Purdue the week before. Wisconsin made two touchdowns but Penn's 204-lb. fullback, Carl Perina, made one also and his teammates made three more. Penn 27, Wisconsin...
...Lud Wray, new head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania, would like to include Harvard, Yale, and Princeton on his football schedule...