Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already have had at least two (better, three) shots by this week, when polio begins its annual epidemic advance northward from the Rio Grande. But in El Paso, one of the cities where polio normally breaks out earliest, the program was off indefinitely, and it was bogged down in Houston and Dallas...
THIS week the eyes of most art-loving Texans are on oils, not oil. With Houston the center of the American Federation of Arts' 1957 convention, and Dallas, San Antonio and Fort Worth standing by to receive the convention's airlift tour, the four cities' museums, galleries, private homes and department stores have turned themselves into showcases for art, displaying everything from such private collections as Social Leader Ima Hogg's Colonial Americans to a sampling of just about every living Texas painter and sculptor. But the standout exhibit is the handsome tribute, co-sponsored...
Brother Marcel, at 69 still spry, witty and eager to shock, would put it a little differently. On his way to Houston last week, where he will lecture the convention on "The Creative Act," he proclaimed: "Painting today is a Wall Street affair. When you make a business out of being a revolutionary, what are you? A crook. As Brancusi used to say, 'Art is a swindle...
Congressional chatter about cutting the $72 billion Federal budget has so far centered on defense, foreign-aid, schools and health-and-welfare expenditures. Last week in Houston one of the nation's biggest cotton men, Lamar Fleming Jr., board chairman of Anderson, Clayton...
...Allison is a "big dumb guy," whose blunt confidence in his powers is tempered by unexpected flashes of real insight. Deborah Kerr plays Sister Anglea with naivete and a brouge, but without cruelty. Both could have been unmerciful satires of arch-type young nuns and dirty Marines; but Houston has made them happily sympathetic figures, and not pressed indelicate comparison...