Word: oveta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest circulations in Texas (220,491), has of recent years quietly tended to patiently building up readership and its reputation as one of the best in the Southwest. With ailing Board Chairman and ex-Texas Governor William Pettus Hobby, 84, on the sidelines, his wife, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, 58, ran things with the same crispness that she brought to her work as wartime director of the WACs and as first U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Last week the Post reached over the garden fence and, by outbidding four rivals, picked up three neighboring dailies: the morning Galveston...
...Hobbys hastened to assure her that the papers would operate as they have in the past, as "distinct public serv ants." And though the purchase gave the Houston Post Company a commanding position in East Texas, crew-cut Post Managing Editor William P. Hobby Jr., 30, Oveta's boy, was quick to hush speculation that it was out for more. "Much as I like the sound of the phrase," said he, "this is not the start of an empire...
...streets, glittering shops, new buildings all over the city, and more new buildings rising on nearly every block. A heady boomtown flavor hung in the humid air. Without pausing even to examine a copy of the Post, Hous ton's leading daily, Newhouse sought out its co-proprietor, Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, and put in a magnificently reckless bid. Would she sell him the paper for, say, $40 million cash? No, said Mrs. Hobby politely, she would...
...traded on my love for children," Miss Hewitt prospered. Her love of the theater encouraged such later stars as Julie Harris and Lee Remick (class of '53), while her firm stage manager's hand gave it the reputation as a "good solid school for girls," which attracted Oveta Gulp Hobby's daughter Jessica, Edsel Ford's daughter Dodie, and 489 other graduates whose fathers paid fees up to $1,300 a year for day sessions and $3,000 for boarding...
...such angered reaction. All three Houston papers underestimated the ability of Houstonians to find out the news for themselves. The papers were besieged with angry calls. "I am opposed to integration," said one woman, "but I would rather have integrated lunch counters than controlled news." To call ers, Oveta Gulp Hobby's Post blandly replied that the blackout had been taken as "another public service of the Post to insure public safety." But for all their intentions of doing good by stealth, the Post, the Chronicle and the Press would certainly have found life simpler had they lived...