Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wing sympathies in the noisy row which greeted the traveling "Sport in Art" show in Dallas (TIME, March 12),-he had just run into another rebuff at the hands of Texas patriots: cancellation of a $124,755 commission for three huge sculptured aluminum panels designed for the exterior of Houston's new $16 million Bank of the Southwest. The bank's explanation: the sculpture was "too modern," and somehow seemed inappropriate after the Bank of the Southwest changed its name from the Second National Bank of Houston...
...proposing McAllen's conservative Mrs. Lloyd Bentsen Jr. as national committeewoman, he overstepped. The resurgent liberals, pointing to Beryl Bentsen's past support of Shivers, rallied behind their own candidate, Mrs. R. D. Randolph, a spry, 62-year-old grandmother and banker's wife from Houston. Late that evening Beryl Bentsen withdrew and Frankie Randolph was elected from the floor...
Essentially a landscape painter, Kienbusch finds that reworking nature and translating it into his own terms is the only way to get at its inner meaning and intensity. Says he: "I betray nature if I copy." In the Houston Museum of Fine Arts' Across Penobscot Bay (opposite) he shows "what it feels like on a beautiful day to look from an island across the bay. What interested me was that the space of the trees in the foreground seems to embrace the space of the bay." The starting point for The Weir and the Island, now owned by Manhattan...
Combat Loaded. In Houston, a bus station clerk caught nine-year-old Danny McElwee and his brother Victor,11, trying to run away from home, opened their bags, found: two baseballs, two gloves, a homemade butterfly net, Victor's butterfly collection, a jar of live caterpillars, no clothing...
...that some of our Negro friends may politely ask if they may come into our church on Sunday morning to worship. Certainly Christian love has no answer but to kindly grant the request." There were a few frowns and compressed lips, but the congregation showed no rancor. In Houston, no Negro had ever asked to join Augustana Church, even though it is perched on the edge of an expanding Negro district. Few parishioners seemed to feel that the pastor's words boded any real change...