Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity wrestlers are expected to hand M.I.T. a defeat when they begin their second season under Coach Bob Pickett at 4 p.m. today in the Blockhouse. Howie Houston's freshmen will also open their mat season against the Engineers today their match is starting at 2 p.m. in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Howard E. Houston '50, 21., Chairman of the Permanent Class Committee, estimated that upwards of 100 men would attend, even though it is designed only for Boston area '50 graduates and the several hundred students in the various University graduate schools...
...Houston last December, when his second daughter Glennalee, 17, eloped with her young highschool sweetheart George Pontikes, the son of an immigrant Greek cobbler, Millionaire Glenn McCarthy flew into the classic fatherly rage. By last week, however, time and normal events had softened the blow, and photographers caught the terrible-tempered oilman in the classic pose of a new grandfather. Glennalee had presented him with his first granddaughter. Her name: Glennalee McCarthy Pontikes...
...schooling lasted exactly three years. At twelve, he was working in a candy store for $3 a week, at 17, was running a small cotton business. From there, he drifted into prospecting for oil, and after ten years of wildcatting, finally struck it rich. At Blue Ridge, outside of Houston, he hit a gusher. After that, he lost track of how many millions...
...years, from land that was once a forest, 46 buildings have sprung up on the Houston campus, including colleges of law, business, education, engineering, pharmacy and nursing. Over it all, Hugh Cullen keeps a fatherly eye. As chairman of the Board of Regents, as well as Houston's foremost angel, he never interferes with academic policy, does not even seem to care whether Houston has a big football team. At 70, he has only one plan for the university: "I'd like to give quite a few more millions to it," says...