Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to Draper, board chairman of the Mexican Light & Power Co. and retired World War II major general, the committee includes: Houston Lawyer Dillon Anderson, onetime presidential assistant for national-security affairs; Detroit Banker Joseph M. Dodge, onetime Budget Director; American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Washington Lawyer Marx Leva, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense; New York Banker John J. McCloy, onetime High Commissioner in Germany; Dallas Businessman George C. McGhee, onetime Assistant Secretary of State; General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), onetime Commander of U.S. forces in Europe; Admiral Arthur W. Radford...
...pneumonia; at a clinic in Kingsport, Tenn. Mountaineer Sailing, a rocking-chair pacifist ("Wars are all part of some scheme"), outlived the last Union soldier-Albert Woolson, who died in Duluth, Aug. 2, 1956-but not the Confederacy's Walter W. ("Old Reb") Williams, who lives in Houston and is the Civil War's last...
...series arose from a sense of frustration. Arkansas-born Vance Trimble was just 14 when he started tracking down personals for the Okemah (Okla.) Leader. He never got to college, shuttled instead around the Southwest from city room to city room in the '30s before landing with the Houston Press, rising to managing editor, and in 1955 going to work for Scripps-Howard. In Washington with the title of news editor for the Scripps-Howard bureau, Trimble was tied to a desk from 3 to 11 p.m., one of the capital's hundreds of near-anonymous newsmen...
Battery Booster. For motorists whose batteries run down in winter from too much low-speed, nighttime driving with heater and defroster, Consolidated General Products of Houston announced a generator overdrive to help charge the battery. At low driving speeds the overdrive speeds up the generator, cuts back at regular car speed. Price...
...whether the night's show is in Washington, D.C. or Houston, St. Louis or Bridgeport, it is still a staple...