Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picking his soloists. Cellist Edmund, 43, a front-rank virtuoso, has always agreed, but he adds, "Brothers can come together occasionally to have a little musical outing." Up to last week, they had had only three such outings in 25 years: in Stuttgart, Berlin and Kansas City, Mo. Houston, where Efrem has led the symphony since 1948, was treated to the fourth...
Lone Star (MGM) shows how Clark Gable and Ava Gardner helped persuade the Republic of Texas to become one of the United States. Gable plays a soldier of fortune dispatched by ex-President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) to Texas Patriarch Sam Houston with a message urging Texas statehood. Ava ("That's a lot of woman") is an Austin editor who sides with Broderick Crawford, would-be dictator of an independent Texas empire, until Gable closes her eyes in kisses and opens them to what is best for Texas...
...movie's Texans, even the villains, keep their word of honor, respect womanhood and fight at the drop of a line of dialogue. When Gable and Crawford clash at the barricades before the Texas senate, mass slaughter breaks out. Then, at a word from the revered Houston (Moroni Olsen), the two leaders settle the issue in a fist fight, the ground suddenly clears of casualties, and both sides go off to fight the Mexicans...
Harmless Crackpot? Then Houston Lawyer-Industrialist Roy Hofheinz, 39, who had opened a 50,000-watt radio station, KSOX, in Harlingen, joined the attack on Hoiles in an all-out crusade over the air. His station also began taking ads away from the Hoiles papers. Partly because he was pinched by this competition, and partly because they disagreed with him, Hoiles fired the three editors who had stayed on when he bought the papers...
...Texas delegation is caught up in a fight for control of the state party machinery. National Committeeman Henry Zweifel and State Chairman Orville Bullington are for Taft. If they stay in the saddle they can deliver 32 votes. Zweifel is challenged for control of the party by Houston Oilman H. J. Porter, an Ikeman. As in most organizational political fights, the incumbent bosses have a big advantage...