Word: houston
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When the first art museum in Texas swung open its doors 29 years ago, a stampede of 10,000 curious Texans wore the varnish off the floors in four hours. The excitement wore off almost as fast. Only 20,000 more visited Houston's Museum of Fine Arts all the rest of that year, and part-time Director James Chillman knew that he had a big job ahead of him transforming the museum from a one-day novelty into a permanent addition to Houston's cultural life
...uplift has barely begun." Speaking as a lone man who grew up in a family of aunts, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, mothers, and now a wife and daughter, I can tell De Beauvoir that woman's uplift has been going on for a long time. BILL STALNAKER Houston...
...sooner had the first copies of Esquire reached Texas last week than columnists and editors all over the state let out a howl of protest-as Esquire had doubtless expected. The Houston Press streamed a banner across Page One: HEY, TEXANS! THEY'RE SNIPING AT us AGAIN!! It compared Author Dorrity to "a wino on an overdose of Sterno [who] lashes out at everything in sight ..." Said East Texas' Kilgore News-Herald: the article "sounds as if an agent for Joe Stalin wrote it." In the Dallas News, Columnist Paul Crume, carefully misspelling the author's name...
...Kinley, a Californian by birth, has put out 300 fires, has few rivals (many other fire fighters have been killed). He is wealthy enough to retire on his fire fighting earnings (an estimated $100,000 a year), plus royalties on oilfield tools, sold by a company he owns in Houston. But Kinley, who regards fire as a personal demon always scheming to outwit him, can never resist the next jangle of the long-distance fire bell. Says he: "I guess I'll retire when they carry...
Perchance to Dream ... In Houston, Merrick Gillory, suing for divorce, charged that he couldn't sleep at night because his wife slept with a butcher knife under her pillow...