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Bank on the Stars (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). A new quiz, with Bill Cullen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Bazy also tried another tack. She called a long list of potential backers, including such conservative millionaires as Sears, Roebuck's Chairman General Robert Wood, ex-Ambassador to England Joseph Kennedy, and Texas Oilmen H. L. Hunt, Sid Richardson, Hugh Roy Cullen and Clint Murchison. Before her 45 hours were up, she had pledges for about $4,000,000, but when she asked the colonel for time to raise more, he said "No, no, no." The colonel was determined to sell to Meyer because he respected him as a professional newspaperman. The colonel did not want to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sale of the Times-Herald | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...before the game with Texas Tech, and 1,800 University of Houston students were gathered for a pep rally. After the usual locomotives and siss-boom-bahs, a speaker took the floor -the grey-thatched chairman of the board of regents, 72-year-old Houston Oil Tycoon Hugh Roy Cullen. A onetime $3-a-week candy salesman who wildcatted his way to one of Texas' biggest fortunes, Cullen never went to college, but he takes great pride in his adopted university. The week before, Houston had defeated Baylor 37-7, and Cullen was still aglow with the triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pep Rally | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...crowd stamped and cheered. Roy Cullen, who has already given $25 million to Houston U., turned away and dabbed at his eyes with a handkerchief. Then he faced the students and said: "I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pep Rally | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...Next day Cullen was on hand to see the Cougars play again-and get beaten. The score: Texas Tech 41, Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pep Rally | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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