Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ernestine Anderson was born in Houston, the daughter of a construction worker. In the neighborhood Baptist church she used to sing hymns with her grandmother. At 13 she was singing at the Eldorado, a big Negro ballroom, and after the family moved to Seattle, she became a regular with local bands. She went on tour with Bumps Blackwell's band, then with Johnny Otis, finally with Lionel Hampton, who took her to Manhattan. For a while she had a "steady gig" at a Greenwich Village spot, but she never attracted real attention until she went to Sweden...
...months. When his hand healed, Brown set out to bring himself to public notice by taking on any and all comers, and regularly belting them into unconsciousness. He flattened four straight challengers. Last week this dedicated purposefulness paid off as a crowd of 10,994 jammed Sam Houston Coliseum to see Brown take on 26-year-old Lane, a left-handed farm boy from Michigan who had not lost a fight in three years...
Especially valuable is kanamycin's effectiveness against strains of microbes, notably Staphylococcus aureus, that are resistant to the older antibiotics and have caused terrifying epidemics in many U.S. hospitals. Kanamycin got its acid test in such an outbreak in Houston (TIME, March 31): of 36 infants who got it, 28 recovered, including eleven who had been considered hopeless cases...
CHARLES H. Row JR. Houston...
...Angeles 51.0 Atlanta 44.7 St. Louis 43.8 Denver 39.3 Seattle 39.3 Newark 37.4 Houston 35.3 Dallas 35.2 San Francisco 34.8 New Orleans 29.2 Detroit 28.0 Indianapolis 26.5 Cleveland 23.0 Minneapolis 21.2 Boston 21.0 Pittsburgh 20.0 New York City 17.7 Philadelphia 16.9 Cincinnati 16.0 Kansas City 13.3 Chicago 12.9 Buffalo...