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Legends. http://txbar.inreachce.net/1015/.

    85. See Joyce & Hoffman, Centered, supra, at 93–94 (“Cathy Cochran’s Evidence”).

    86. Cathleen C. Herasimchuk, Texas Rules of Evidence Handbook, Second Edition,
30 HOUS. L. REV. Issues 1 & 2 (1993); Evelyn Keyes, The Literary Judge: The Judge as
Novelist and Critic, 44 HOUS. L. REV. 679 (2007); Jeff Brown, The Platonic Guardian and
the Lawyer’s Judge: Contrasting the Judicial Philosophies of Earl Warren and John M.
Harlan, 44 HOUS. L. REV. 253 (2007).

    87. Decade 3 Oral History, supra note 64, at 35–37.

    88. Id. at 41–42.

    89. Id. at 52.

    90. Id. at 17.

    91. Id. at 32–33.

    92. See JOHN MIXON, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A LAW SCHOOL 49–52 (2012) [hereinafter
MIXON HISTORY] (on file with Houston Law Review) regarding Blakely’s sternness. But
see also Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly, supra, at 51, concerning his apparent mellowing, at
least toward one HLR EIC, in later years.

    93. Decade 3 Oral History, supra note 64, at 48.

    94. Id. at 44–46.

    95. See Joyce & Hoffman, Centered, supra, at 102 n.101.

    96. Decade 3 Oral History, supra note 64, at 48. For a fuller account of the
relationship between Professor Blakely and Judge Cochran, see Joyce & Hoffman,
Centered, supra, at 93–94 (“Cathy Cochran’s Evidence”).

    97. Decade 3 Oral History, supra note 64, at 23.

    98. E-mail from Judge Elsa Alcala, Court of Criminal Appeals, to Hon. Jeff Brown,
14th Court of Appeals (Jan. 18, 2013) (on file with Houston Law Review). Attentive
readers of prior essays in this series will be aware that the quote in the text has appeared
before. See Joyce & Hoffman, Centered, supra, at 102 n.101. The material just seems too
good, however, to leave buried BTL, i.e., in an endnote.

    99. Chambers v. State, No. 14–11–01117–CR, 2013 WL 830578, at *5 (Tex. App.—
Houston [14th Dist.], Mar. 7, 2013, no pet. h.) (not designated for publication).

   100. See Joyce, Driven, supra, at 4–5.

   101. See id. at 5.

   102. Id. at 8–9.

   103. See MIXON HISTORY, supra note 92, at 186–87, at Chs. 2 (“Founding Dean A.A.
White and His Law Faculty, 1947–1956”) and 16 (“Mike Johnson, Unsung Hero, and
Interim Dean A.A. White, 1974–1976”).

   104. A. A. White, The Reasonably Just Man, 5 HOUS. L. REV. 575 (1968); A.A.
White, The Intentional Exploitation of Man’s Known Weaknesses, 9 HOUS. L. REV. 889
(1972); A. A. White, The Wrongful Death Statutes: A Constitutional Problem, 12
HOUS. L. REV. 35 (1974).

   105. Of the many possible examples, two must suffice. Dwight Olds, one of
White’s many proud hires, published only during Houston Law Review’s first decade
but turned out 15 articles in the process. John Mixon, another of White’s hires and
himself a graduate of the College of Law, contributed five articles over a career at the
University of Houston that would span 55 years until his retirement in 2013.

   106. See MIXON HISTORY, supra note 92, at Ch. 6 (“Newell Blakely’s Law School,
1956–1965”).

   107. See Joyce, Driven, supra, at 5–8.

   108. Id. at 8. The version in the text above is based on MIXON HISTORY, supra
note 103, at 186–87. This unique resource entertainingly preserves its author’s
recollections of an era now otherwise almost entirely lost to history. But the facts of
the present matter are difficult to ascertain with certainty. Pre-HLR alumna Sybil
Balasco, UHLC Class of 1956, recalls introducing Blakely to local businessman and
oil industry icon Maurice (“Daddy”) Frankel, who took a shine to the Dean, asked him
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