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...with 28 tournaments behind him and another winter circuit about to begin, Jimmy Demaret is, at present, 1947's most successful pro golfer. His 1947 earnings to date are $23,636, which gives him a slight lead over South Africa's Bobby Locke ($22,927) and fellow-Texan Ben Hogan ($22,310). For a brief vacation (he competes eleven months out of twelve), the veteran pro headed home to Houston to shoot deer and ducks...
...Frank Dobie is a maverick and a Texan. He can quote Wordsworth or Shelley at length-but he is also a he-man who once ran a 250,000-acre ranch. At the University of Texas, where he has taught for 28 years, Dobie likes to be called Professor Pancho. His lecture preambles-"Now, I'll tell you a little story of Liver-Eating Johnson . . ."-have delighted thousands of students. He refused to move into the new skyscraperish university tower. "It looks like a toothpick in a pie," he said, and opened an office in the oldest building...
Bagpiper Leigh Cross '51, who has never been in Scotland although he claims that he "has always been interested in Scotch music," will not be the only innovation in the musical offerings this afternoon. The Freshman Texan's University debut will be shared with that of J. Rosson Overcash '49, who blows the drillmaster's whistle for the first time...
Democratic leader Rayburn chilled talk of a House investigation. Belligerently, the Texan told the chamber that if any such effort developed he would try to block and delay all other legislation...
...this time of year, it was oddly quiet in the blue-grass country of Kentucky. As a matter of fact, there had not been much talk about the wonders of homebred hay-burners since an upstart Texan named Assault romped off with the 1946 Derby. Now a fresh crop of upstarts was taking dead aim on the 1947 Derby target...