Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bleak but spacious Manhattan apartment that Rice had occupied with Charley Jones after the two moved up from Houston, the mourners found everything apparently in order. But some were a bit bewildered by the presence of a baldheaded, 35-year-old lawyer named Albert T. Patrick. Patrick claimed he had known Rice only a few months. Yet the old man, he insisted, had thought so much of him that he had put him in charge of his whole estate. When Jones and Patrick were asked about Mr. Rice's last days, they both told the same story. His death...
Upshot of the case: Patrick was convicted of murder, only to be pardoned ten years later by New York Governor John Dix (he died in 1940). By turning state's evidence, Jones got his freedom. In Houston, having opened with an endowment of some $10 million from the estate of William Marsh Rice, Rice Institute has continued to grow and flourish. Last week in Baytown, 40 miles from Rice Institute, an old recluse finished the deed he tried to do in jail 54 years ago. At 79, onetime Valet Charley Jones picked up a pistol and killed himself...
BILL STALNAKER Houston...
Married. J osephine Abercrombie, 28, shapely, blonde Houston horsewoman (winner of ten of eleven firsts for harness ponies in last year's National Horse Show), heiress to a $50 million Texas oil fortune; and H. Burnett Robinson, 36, manager of the Abercrombie racing stable; she for the third time, he for the second; in Versailles...
...Accepted: Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, Inc., Houston's Maytag Aircraft Corp. Rejected: Jonesboro (Ark.) Grain Drying Cooperative, the Greenwich (Conn.) Gas Co., two Memphis supermarkets, a Houston real- estate firm, a Hannibal (Mo.) trucking company, Detroit's Wilson-Oldsmobile, an auto dealer...