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...determined ladies who establish "symphony work" as a prime social criterion, whose tea parties, meetings and fund campaigns often mean the difference between life and death for an orchestra. One of the grandest of all musical, grandes dames in the U.S. is Houston's Miss Ima Hogg,† seventyish daughter of Texas' wealthy Governor (1890-95) Jim Hogg. She reigns as an absolute empress, and Houston Junior Leaguers have learned that the only sure way to her is through the symphony. When "Miss Ima" starts her annual fund drive at her mansion on Lazy Lane, the Houston girls...
December Huff. Ima Hogg is one of the orchestra's founders (1913) and president of the board. Her rule has been benevolent. Says she: "I've dreamed of enriching the lives of everybody through music." When she became president in 1946, the orchestra's budget was $300,000. She imported Conductor Efrem Kurtz (at about $30,000 a year), added $100,000 to the budget and expanded performances. By last spring, the orchestra ranked among the first dozen...
...vocalists gave the suite the full ten-gallon-hat treatment. If it seemed a bit long (50 minutes) and repetitive, few in the audience minded much; it was Texas spirit all the way. Composer Guion, who attended the performance with the symphony society's President Ima Hogg,* stood up to receive an ovation with Kurtz...
...Daughter of Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg (1851-1906), named for the heroine of a poem (The Fate of Marvin) written by her uncle, Thomas E. Hogg...
Harlan's miners and mountaineers were astounded, and Circuit Court Judge Astor Hogg just had time to get his jaws ajar and allow it was "the beginning of a new era" when the Beach boys, who dabble in bootlegging, drove into downtown Harlan, the county seat, and fired six bullets into 45-year-old Avery Hensley, a former cop. In the words of Kentucky's standard indictment form, Avery Hensley "did then & there die." Six hours later, Avery's stepson Joe Hensley was sitting in a parked car outside the bus terminal when two Harlan policemen...