Word: houston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even blase Hollywood was impressed by the invitations from Houston. They were in gold, on white doeskin. For this week's opening of his $21 million Shamrock hotel, hustling Oilman Glenn McCarthy had requested the company of a trainload of movie and radio stars. He had the forethought to rent a Santa Fe Super Chief to carry his guests free to Texas and back. As a St. Patrick's Day touch, McCarthy had ordered 2,500 shamrocks flown over from Eire...
Some 2,000 of Houston's wealthy and others forked over $42 a head to eat imported pate de foie gras in the Shamrock's Emerald Room, rub elbows with the notables, and tour the hotel which McCarthy had built in an effort to make Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria look like a lodging house...
...money before he brought in the League City field in 1939 and put his fortune, now estimated at around $50 million, on a reasonably permanent basis. He branched out into the natural-gas business, began picking up choice real estate, including Houston's profitable, 22-story Shell building...
...color photograph of himself in his office) is still as truculent as he was in his days as an oilfield roughneck. The tales of his business deals are almost matched by the stories of his rough & tumble brawling which has caused him to be barred from more than one Houston club. He likes expensive hobbies. Last year his planes came in one, two and four in the Bendix air race. He is rumored to be spending $100,000 to enter a car in this year's Indianapolis auto race. A crack shot, he spends much of his spare time...
...familiar faces under baseball caps combined with a few of the familiar faces over crimson jerseys in a teacher-star pupil demonstration. Batch Jordan's protege, Howie Houston, illustrated The Offensive Stance for the linemen. Chuck Glynn demonstrated How to lead a Spinning Fullback for the centers. Bill Henry performed in Signal Calling: Rhythm and Clarity for the quarterbacks...