Word: jacinto
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Martin was later put in charge of the naval air station on Midway Island. In 1943 and 1944 he commanded the light carrier San Jacinto...
Then one morning Reporter Jacinto Toryho, 39, answered a telephone call at Buenos Aires' La Razo...
...popular; many of his fellow citizens grudgingly envy him his wealth and audacity. As many more deprecate him, and point out, correctly, that he is hardly typical of the Texas millionaire (see box). Nevertheless, Glenn McCarthy is as peculiarly a product of Texas as the famed San Jacinto monument; the Lone Star State is one of the few places left in the world where millionaires hatch seasonally, like May flies...
Roving Tackle. Despite illness and poverty, the boy developed into a big, cold-eyed, hard-fisted youngster who burned with a desire to make the world notice Glenn McCarthy. In Houston's San Jacinto High School he began to succeed-he often came to school with a patch on his pants but he was a football hero and a successful fighter at Saturday-night dances. Girls were enthralled...
...Named for Erastus Smith (1787-1838), who, although deaf, commanded the scouts in General Sam Houston's army. "Deaf" Smith swam the flooded Buffalo Bayou, captured a courier with dispatches for Santa Anna and, on the morning of the battle of San Jacinto, burned the only bridge on which the Mexicans could retreat...