Biography
Born in Alvarado, Texas, and graduate of Sunset High School in Dallas, Texas, Southern left Southern Methodist University to serve as a lieutenant in the US Army during World War II. He returned to the States to study at the University of Chicago and subsequently Northwestern University, where he graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1948.
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