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...DIED. OVETA CULP HOBBY, 90, public servant and newspaper executive; in Houston. No job was too big for the "Little Colonel," who in 1941 rose from co-managing the Houston Post to commanding the Women's Army Corps. She was appointed the nation's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1953; her resignation two years later prompted Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to gasp, "What? The best man in the Cabinet...
...Houston standards, diligent local coverage; it won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1965. Yet despite the bi-partisan political involvement of family members-including the paper's late chairman, William Hobby, who was Democratic Governor of Texas from 1917 to 1921, and his widow and successor Oveta Gulp Hobby, who was, under President Eisenhower, the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare-the paper rarely crusaded. For four days after the New York Times published the classified Pentagon papers in 1971, the Post did not even mention the disclosures. The initial reaction of the younger William Hobby...
Then there was William Jennings Bryan who, having seen his fundamentalist creed vindicated during the Scopes trial of 1925, still insisted upon taking the stand in order to make his antievolution position crystal clear, thereby exposing himself to national (and historical) ridicule. And there was Oveta Culp Hobby who, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1955, explained the shortage of the new Salk polio vaccine: "No one could have foreseen its great acclaim." And there is always Richard Nixon, the apostle of perfect clarity, who at times has seemed hell-bent on clarifying himself out of existence...
...Cabinet, Carla Hills took command of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the third woman to serve in the Cabinet (after F.D.R.'s Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and Dwight Eisenhower's HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby...
...easily. There were two curious things about the Post's quadruple blessing of Hobby: the paper declined to take a stand on any of the other statewide contests, and it neglected to mention Hobby's position as president and executive editor of the Post. His mother, Oveta Culp Hobby, 67, also happens to own the paper and sit on its editorial board. Said the winner: "I didn't have to give any instructions to ensure that the paper would handle this race fairly. This is a highly professional newsgathering operation...