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104 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW

ODDMENTS

(Good) Night of the Living Dead. During its third decade, the
contents of Houston Law Review showed definite signs of
maturation toward the familiar features of the present day. Several
hardy perennials of prior years—“Current Materials,” “Books
Received,” “Books Noted,” “Books Annotated,” and “Recent
Developments”—already had gone to meet their Maker. During
Decade 3, a list of “Writing Awards” received by HLR members
appeared sporadically, but then was seen no more. “Book Reviews”
survived fitfully through Volume 29 before they, too, expired. By
decade’s end, the old “fillers” of the Review’s earlier decades one-by-
one had breathed their last.

Romance Revealed. Attentive readers will remember from the
Oddments to Carry on Boldly that, at the end of HLR’s Decade 2,
two there-unnamed persons—a member of the Review and its
secretary—had met, fallen in love, and married. Now it can be told
(because the authors have ascertained that the story had a happy
ending which continues to today): the blissful couple were, and are,
David Glenn and Vicky Patrick.

Cover Story. “Am I Blue” (or perhaps a smoky gray)? If so, this
must be the end of Decade 3. Perhaps surprisingly, given the
adoption by the Law Center of a new seal in 1982, the “gentle
Lowland birds” featured there did not make their first appearance
on HLR’s cover during its third decade. Instead, stealing a march—
marsh?—on its parent institution, martlets had been waddling
across the cover of Houston Law Review, on a taupe background,
since Volume 16. Midstream in Volume 29’s Issue 3, however, the
feathery forebears of General Sam seemingly took flight in a new
blue(ish) sky on an otherwise totally unchanged HLR cover. Color
the authors of this essay clueless regarding reasons for the change.

Advisor Ostensibly in Absentia. During his long and
distinguished run as Faculty Advisor to Houston Law Review, G.
Sidney Buchanan was forced to take one brief hiatus, to avoid the
appearance of impropriety, while doing a short tour of duty as Law
Center Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1985–1987. The
advisor of record for the period, Irene Merker Rosenberg, served
ably in his stead, although unofficial advising by “Captain Nice”
appears to have continued unabated throughout.

Do You Know Me? The editors of Board 26 reported in the fall
1988 Board Report: “[A]s a part of an effort to streamline the