Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fund-raising pamphlet put out by the University of Houston in 1937 was like hundreds of others. But one of them fell on very good ground: into the hands of a multimillionaire named Hugh Roy Cullen. Oilman Cullen thumbed it through, over & over again. He was fascinated by the story of a "typical" job-holding student-a boy who worked and studied from 6:45 each morning until 11:10 each night. "That," said Hugh Cullen, "is the kind of people I want to help...
Since that day, Oilman Cullen has never stopped helping the University of Houston. When he began, the university was only three years old-a former junior college that had 1,300 students, 55 teachers and a single wooden shack on the San Jacinto high-school campus. By last week, when the university totted up its 1951 enrollment, even the eyes of Texas were wide with wonder. Houston announced that it had 13,541 students (second only to the University of Texas), a faculty of 513, a 260-acre campus. Thanks largely to the Cullen bounty, it was the fastest-growing...
...break--if not sooner, then later. Keep playing in the league you belong in, where victory is purely a good thing to be taken without apology from an equal. You've got a couple of good sophomore backs in Clasby and Culver. Maybe next year you'll get a Houston to put up ahead of them, and you'll win four or five. But until you do, I'd sooner see you lose to Princeton by four touchdowns than beat Connecticut by one. Alan Lindsey...
Teaser. At Fort Sam Houston, Texas, curious personnel officers had a talk with WAC Pfc. Gloria Yeager, who had listed her civilian occupation as "stripper," learned that she used to strip tobacco leaves in a cigarette factory...
...Comers Met In his deadpan, wryly humorous column, Meeting All Comers, in the Houston Post, H. (for Hubert) Mewhinney has earned a reputation as the city's know-it-all. He advises readers on such diverse subjects as how to rid their chimneys of bats, how to tell a male cocklebur from a female cocklebur (a female has burs), and whether armadillos are good to eat (they are). No one catches H. Mewhinney with his patter down. When one fan insisted that bookkeeper was the only English word with three double letters, Mewhinney gave him at least three more...