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nothing so much as a pentagon-shaped copper snowflake—an
unlikely symbol for a law school located in Houston, Texas!
Romance at the Review. Labor at HLR could prove
fruitful in more ways than even Karl Llewellyn had promised, as
Board 2’s example demonstrated. Miller Walsh (a comment
editor) and Mimi Nunn (the Review’s secretary) were married at
some point in 1964 and continued so for 43 years until Miller’s
death in 2007. http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/
obits_4450664/walsh.html. No doubt many more such tales could
be told.
Clearly (En)titled. Hands down, the prize for best title of
the decade goes to University of Houston College of Law
Professor (and HLR Faculty Advisor) Alan D. Cullison,
Interpretations of the Eleventh Amendment (A Case of the White
Knight’s Green Whiskers), 5 HOUS. L. REV. 1 (1967) (arguing, per
the abstract to his article and with reference to the White
Knight’s song to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking
Glass, that the Eleventh Amendment to the United States
Constitution “does not mean what it says nor even what the
[Supreme] Court says it means”).