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Word: houston (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than coincidence that Houston Harte, Texas newspaper publisher, happened to choose one of our artists to illustrate his selection of the best stories in the Old Testament. For some years he had been collecting the originals of the TIME portraits of Texans-who have appeared on our cover. When Oxford University Press agreed to publish the Old Testament stories, Publisher Harte wanted them illustrated in the new kind of journalistic portraiture that TIME and its cover artists had developed. Of our cover artists (the others are, of course, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chalia-pin), Rowe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Five in a Row. Buckshot's detailed, homely communications to "Ed," which he started nine years ago, now appear regularly in seven Texas newspapers (including one in Czech) and occasionally in the Houston Post and the Houston Press. Sometimes as hard-boiled as Hammett, sometimes as folksy as Uncle Remus, the columns not only have earned him a journalistic reputation but have helped get him elected sheriff for five straight terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...benefit, if any, they get from his work. But he also works just as hard making all manner of things better and more usable. His new vacuum cleaner (Singer) is the first which is designed to be hung up flat against a closet wall. Foley Bros, department store, in Houston, was the first department store designed so that a shopper could walk through the store making purchases, and have them all waiting for her when she returned to her car in the store garage. Though Loewy's work does not have the imaginative sweep of Designer Bel Geddes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

West and Roche gained approximately three-fourths of Harvard's rushing yard-age and played a great deal of defense as well. In the line, Valpey singled out Houston, whose ability to go defensively helped considerably, and Stretch Mazzone, who also went both ways for a long time...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Crimson Beat Crusaders On Ground Plays | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Thought was absolutely no breeze when the game got under Captain Houston, who won the loss, elected to receive. West gave some indication of what he was accomplish later on in the afternoon by returning the kickoff it yards on the Harvard...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Crimson Stops Holy Cross, 22-14, for First 1949 Victory; West and Roche Spark Offense | 10/30/1949 | See Source »

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