Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra have women harpists. (Philadelphia also has a woman second cellist.) Further west women have gained a bit more foothold. e.g., Indianapolis and Houston have women first flutists, St. Louis has a woman first trombonist...
...months after the Houston Post's Cub Reporter Franklin Reed, 21, began covering Houston's draft boards for the Post in 1950, he was himself classified 1-A. City Editor Harry M. Johnston, 32, and a veteran of World War II, was delighted; the classification was just the thing to make Reporter Reed's daily column of draft news seem more authentic. But when weeks passed and Reed was not inducted, City Editor Johnston came to the conclusion that the column was growing monotonous. At Johnston's urging, earnest Reporter Reed asked his board for immediate...
...Fort Sam Houston and Camp Cooke, Calif., Reed kept his readers Posted on the daily life of a recruit by scrawling out his column in longhand at night or spending 20? to use the service club typewriter. "You'd be surprised how firma the terra is when you hit it suddenly, while running at full steam and carrying a lot of equipment . . . The cardinal rule brought to bear upon the soldier in the field is as follows: 'If you can't eat it, drink it, or carry it with you, bury it.' This is known...
McCarthy had a typical solution. He arranged a sizable loan from Dallas Rupe & Son's investment firm, and planned expansion into other Houston areas, and possibly other cities...
Last week Publisher McCarthy ran into more trouble. With its regular Wednesday edition, Jesse Jones's big (circ. 183,000) Houston Chronicle issued five special sections, crammed with McCarthy-style news and aimed at the various Houston neighborhoods covered by the Citizen. The Chronicle's new weekly sections, each with a staff of its own, were the Jones answer to the circulation and advertising inroads made by McCarthy and by Scripps-Howard's Press (circ. 114,346) and Oveta Culp Hobby's Post (circ. 170,000). Glenn professed no surprise at the Chronicle move, said Jones...