Word: houston
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...Picket's varsity wrestlers will probably suffer their second straight defeat when they travel to West Point to encounter Army, at 3 p.m. today. At Andover. Howie Houston's freshmen, now holding a two-and-two record, will meet the prep-schoolers...
...Houston's gloomy old municipal auditorium one night last week, Texans plumped into their seats for a go at a favorite pastime: admiring the work of a native son. This time, the son was Composer and Folksong-Arranger (Home on the Range) David Wendel Fentress Guion, 56, a short (5 ft. 5 in.) sober-faced man with a pince-nez, who now lives in Pennsylvania. Guion's latest composition: a symphonic suite called Texas, commissioned for the Houston Symphony Society...
Conductor Efrem Kurtz, his Houston Symphony and two 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...
...powerful Brown squad handed Coach Bob Pickett's varsity wrestlers their first defeat, a 21 to 11 setback, Saturday at the Blockhouse. In the preliminaries, the Bruin freshmen topped Howie Houston's Yardlings...
Brown moves into the Blockhouse at 3:30 p.m. today with one of the toughest teams the Crimson varsity wrestlers will face all season. In the preliminaries at 2 p.m. Howie Houston's freshmen, trying to recover from a 16 to 14 defeat by Exeter, will have an equally difficult time against the Bruin cubs...