Word: culps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be a handsome Bible. The dismissal bell was still resounding when a self-assured little girl came forward from her desk, and in a firm, quiet voice told the teacher she might as well go right ahead and inscribe the Bible. It ought to be inscribed to Oveta Culp. Pig-tailed Oveta Culp wasn't being brash or smart-alecky ; she knew she was the best speller, and was merely stating what she regarded as inevitable. At term's end, Oveta won the Bible...
Washington's vast Federal Security Building. "Office of the Secretary," it read, in shiny new gilt letters. Beyond the door, in a mulberry-and-cream office, Oveta Culp Hobby, the nation's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was beginning the biggest spelldown of her career. She looked small and feminine behind her broad mahogany desk, but she moved with the poise and confidence of a successful business executive, as she checked "yes" and "no" on a long list of requests for appointments and telephone priorities. Now & then she paused reflectively and puffed on a Parliament, then...
...Girl Named Forget. The Culp family can hardly remember when Oveta was not the successful mistress of her own destiny. When she was a little girl in Killeen, her mother and father had to urge her to go to the movies or on a Sunday afternoon drive. Oveta was usually too busy reading. The Culps liked to fish in the Lampasas River, but Oveta couldn't waste valuable time on such nonsense. She rarely participated in children's games, except for an occasional round of "church," where she could parade her Biblical knowledge (she had read the Bible...
...aimed at the various Houston neighborhoods covered by the Citizen. The Chronicle's new weekly sections, each with a staff of its own, were the Jones answer to the circulation and advertising inroads made by McCarthy and by Scripps-Howard's Press (circ. 114,346) and Oveta Culp Hobby's Post (circ. 170,000). Glenn professed no surprise at the Chronicle move, said Jones had tried to buy the Citizen from him months...