Waco, Texas (pop. 56,000) seemed an improbable place for it, to everyone but the citizens of Waco (pronounced Way-co). This week they began a $750,000 white marble building, studded with stained-glass windows, to house the largest Browning collection in the world. The city itself had donated a whole block for it, right next to the Baylor University campus. The man who had made Browning a hero to Waco was Baylor's bushy-browed Professor A. Joseph Armstrong.
In 37 years, thousands of Baylor students have taken his poetry course on Robert Browning, and most would never forget it. Peering down at his class from...
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