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along with the men of course, have benefited the publication
hugely during its first 50 years. During HLR South’s fifth decade,
fully five of its ten Editors in Chief were women; at HLR North,
two of ten Presidents. Lifetime, then: Cowtown, 17 of 50 (batting
a more than respectable .340); Cambridge, 6 of 126 (umm, a
pitiful .047). Over and done. North, see you in 50. Judgment for
Houston Law Review. It is so ordered.

Not an Oddment at All. After 25 weeks, five issues, and 195
pages, these essays come to a close. But not before the authors
rise on a point of personal privilege. Having never before had the
opportunity to do so ATL (above-the-line), we wish to state for
the record that this effort has been one of the greatest privileges
of our professional lives. We here express our profound
appreciation to all the members of all the boards, 1 through 50—
in short, to those who actually lived the story that we have been
privileged here merely to recount. You are the true authors of
this history.

Finally. As said in the first line of these essays, “In the
beginning was . . .” But wait. In the beginning, what Houston
Law Review’s founders had dreamed for their infant journal was
just that: what they dreamed for it. An absurd dream, obviously.
In the 50 years of maturation that followed, however, their
successors struggled mightily to make the dream a reality. By
the end of HLR’s fifth decade, it was. That story now has been
told. And so a series of essays that began with a quote lifted from
the Almighty ends with a fair-use nod to Porky Pig (from Warner
Brothers not Disney, the Deity’s latter-day equivalent): “That’s
all, folks!”