sentences:  After working briefly as a reporter for the "Corpus Christi Caller-Times", Brammer joined the "American-Statesman" (then called the "Austin Statesman"), where he won a press award for excellence in writing in 1952.In 1954, he won the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Contest for a feature sports story written for the same paper.In 1955, Brammer became an associate editor of the "Texas Observer", a magazine of liberal dissent at a time when in Texas "the impulse for dissent scarcely existed."