Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marshall enrolled at Howard. "There," he says, "for the first time, I found out my rights." The late Charles Houston, then Howard's law dean and later N.A.A.C.P.'s counsel, looked on Howard as a self-destroying force: he wanted it to turn out a battery of able Negro lawyers who would one day accomplish the abolition of segregation, and so make Howard obsolete.* Star Student Marshall signed on, eventually (1938) succeeded Houston in the N.A.A.C.P. job. It has taken harddriving, easygoing Marshall to all 48 states, Japan and Korea, has several times put him in hot spots...
...before the game with Texas Tech, and 1,800 University of Houston students were gathered for a pep rally. After the usual locomotives and siss-boom-bahs, a speaker took the floor -the grey-thatched chairman of the board of regents, 72-year-old Houston Oil Tycoon Hugh Roy Cullen. A onetime $3-a-week candy salesman who wildcatted his way to one of Texas' biggest fortunes, Cullen never went to college, but he takes great pride in his adopted university. The week before, Houston had defeated Baylor 37-7, and Cullen was still aglow with the triumph...
...crowd stamped and cheered. Roy Cullen, who has already given $25 million to Houston U., turned away and dabbed at his eyes with a handkerchief. Then he faced the students and said: "I love...
Next day Cullen was on hand to see the Cougars play again-and get beaten. The score: Texas Tech 41, Houston...
...Harmon Whittington, 54, took over as president of Houston's Anderson, Clayton & Co., Inc., world's largest cotton merchants (1952 sales: $892,733,355), succeeding Lamar Fleming Jr., 61, who moved up to chairman. Whittington, who got into the cotton business because it seemed as if cotton buyers had to work only a few months of the year, started with Anderson, Clayton at 18 as a stenographer, rose to salesman, branched out into foreign operations, and has been executive vice president since 1945. ¶Frederick Russell Kappel, 51, took over as president of Western Electric Co. Inc., American...