Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would Texans listen to three hours of classical music every night? Charles Barbe, a former symphony conductor turned highbrow disk jockey, thought they would. But, he recalls, "every advertising agency in town told us we were chumps." Finally, the owner of Houston's station KXYZ-FM, Oilman Glenn McCarthy, decided to give Barbe, and Texas, a chance. Both came through with a symphonic bang...
...next step was to get Houston to look at the museum's collections. "It has been a question of encouraging people," says Chillman, "not forcing them by saying 'You'd better like this.' " Dividing his time between his museum work and teaching architecture at nearby Rice Institute, Chillman over the years laid out art courses for Girl Scout leaders and public school teachers, gave youngsters guided tours of the museum. Houston heard Chillman talk about art over the radio, saw the museum's masterpieces...
Plowing the Ground. Through Houston's advance guard sometimes argues with Chillman's conservative taste, no one argues with his results. The museum collections have grown to a solid $3,500,000 worth of treasures. Manhattan's Samuel Kress Foundation will soon add another 33 old masters. And work is going ahead on a new wing to the white limestone building that will provide 3,000 sq. ft. more of exhibition space when it is finished this fall. Best of all, says Chillman, Texans are using the museum; the 1952 attendance was more than...
...geting ready to turn it over to a full-time director. The new head man, who will take over in May: Lee H. B. Malone, 39, director of the Gallery of Fine Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Chillman figures that 2,000,000 Texans have already learned about art from Houston's museum. And, says Chillman, "Up to now, we've just been plowing the ground...
Ever since ex-Air Force Major William F. Long founded Dallas' Pioneer Airlines in 1946, the busy, ambitious feeder line has grown like a Texas steer. Starting with six surplus Douglas DC-3s, Pioneer began by shuttling oilmen from west Texas oilfields to Dallas and Houston, soon built its fleet up to 13 DC-3s and its route to 21 cities in Texas and New Mexico. In 1950, moneymaking Pioneer flew more passenger-miles (37 million) and carried more mail than any of the nation's 14 other local service lines...