Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what it paid me." But last week, at 64, he was enjoying a great deal more than that. When Stan ("The Man") Musial became the eighth man ever to make 3.000 big-league hits (TIME, May 12), Dickie Kerr and his wife heard the news in their new Houston home, a neat white frame bungalow that had just been bought for them, out of gratitude and a sense of everlasting obligation, by a sore-armed Class D pitcher named Stanley Frank Musial...
...reason why Texas liked Ike in 1952 was that Candidate Eisenhower came out foursquare for giving the states title to the disputed "tidelands" -and Texas expected to pump a lot of revenue out of offshore oil. In a campaign speech in Houston that year, Ike even endorsed Texans' claim that their state really extends three marine leagues (10½ miles) out into the Gulf of Mexico, just as the Republic of Texas did before it joined the U.S. in 1845. Ike kept the campaign promise: in 1953 he signed a bill (similar to bills that Harry Truman had vetoed...
...Abby got some 25 letters from frantic women, each confessing that she was the writer of the mash notes. They came from Houston, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, even Honolulu. The original letter was written by a woman who lived in the San Francisco area...
...Hell." At a plump twelve, he made his orchestral debut with the Houston Symphony as a winner of a statewide young pianists' competition, played Tchaikovsky's B Flat Concerto. The same year he played in Carnegie Hall as the Texas winner of the National Music Festival's nationwide competition to uncover talented junior soloists. Mamma Cliburn ferried him out to California to play for Jose Iturbi, and Iturbi promptly proclaimed him "the most talented youngster I've heard...
...take him out in the seventh or eighth round," said Lightweight Champion Joe Brown just before he climbed into the ring in Houston to defend his title against nimble, light-punching Challenger Ralph Dupas. As good as his word, the lean Louisiana Negro put Dupas on the deck three times in the eighth, finally stepped back politely to let Referee Jimmy Webb announce what everyone in the arena already knew: Brown was still the boss of the 135-lb. division...