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Much of this vertical magnitude is lodged in Texan Pat Dalley, who reaches six feet six inches into the air and has the breadth and depth as well to hand out plenty of punishment under the basket. Having served three years in the Army before heading Cambridgeway, Dalley is the only veteran on the squad and is slated to handle the-pivot post as center...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Freshman Basketball | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

...Texan's Texan, softspoken, greying (53) Beauford Jester had all the attributes of a winning candidate: Texas-born, son of a former Texas lieutenant governor, graduate of Texas University and its law school, infantry captain in World War I, father of three children (one a pretty Texas coed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Texans' Texan | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...stock half a dozen southern Democratic primaries. But the voters who worked the polls in record numbers last week seemed vaguely dissatisfied. The trouble was that the main event, the 14-man fight for the gubernatorial nomination, had produced no first-rate political showman. If there is anything a Texan abhors it is to have his candidates turn out less flamboyant than the issues they hawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Roundup Time | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...cast in a last-minute rescue, he soon learned his mistake. Within a few minutes after hearing his message, the House-by a margin of 38 votes-sustained the veto. The Senate turned down a resolution that would have extended the present law temporarily. It required unanimous consent-and Texan O'Daniel immediately objected. At midnight, 34 hours later, OPA died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Price Gamble | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Eight-column headlines in a Daily Texan extra blared: REGENTS OFFER DR. PAINTER PRESIDENCY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sacrifice | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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