Mild-mannered Theophilus Shickel Painter, a geneticist, likes to peer through microscopes, putter in his water-lily garden and hunt in season. As shy as a deer, he makes a fetish of avoiding publicity. But last week Professor Painter, who had been acting president of the University of Texas since 1944, saw and heard his name everywhere he turned.
Eight-column headlines in a Daily Texan extra blared: REGENTS OFFER DR. PAINTER PRESIDENCY.
About 1,500 students met in a mass meeting to deplore the appointment. The Student Council, by 8-3 vote, wished that someone else had gotten the job. The faculty voted 186-160 not to...
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