Word: oveta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frankly for show, they are worn on the wrist with wide vinyl bands in vivid electric colors, dangle from necklaces or belts, even come as adjustable rings to be worn on the finger. Nor is their appeal only to the young. Rose Kennedy, Carol Channing, Oveta Gulp Hobby and Mary Lasker all sport them. Lord Snowdon owns several, including a big black one to harmonize with his evening clothes. The Beatles' Ringo Starr threads his on a velvet ribbon and drapes it around his neck...
...other members: former Harvard President James B. Conant, Caltech President Lee A. DuBridge, Author Ralph Ellison, Ambassador to Switzerland John S. Hayes, University of Illinois President David D. Henry, Houston Post Chairman Oveta Culp Hobby, J. C. Kellam (manager of Lyndon Johnson's broadcasting holdings), Polaroid President Edwin H. Land, Reynolds Metals President Joseph H. McConnell, Hampshire College President Franklin Patterson, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, TV Producer Robert (Omnibus) Saudek, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and United Auto Workers' Executive Leonard Woodcock...
Died. William Pettus Hobby, 86, onetime Governor of Texas (1917-1921), longtime chairman of the Houston Post and husband of Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ike's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who gave his state women's suffrage and its first oil conservation laws, then rode off to the newspaper wars, supervising the Post's rise as one of Texas' most informative and widely read newspapers (circ. 224,-649); in Houston...
Branch Roots. Over at the dethroned Post, President and Editor Oveta Gulp Hobby, Eisenhower's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, acknowledges the existence of a "friendly" rivalry, but appears unwilling to engage the Chronicle at any level. She may have to. Editor Steven has been promised continuing editorial freedom by Chronicle President John T. Jones Jr., nephew and heir of Jesse Jones, the Chronicle's longtime publisher and F.D.R.'s Secretary of Commerce. This is the sort of invigorating climate in which Bill Steven thrives. Said he, surveying the busy Chronicle newsroom, where...
JAMES C. HAGERTY LEONARD HALL W. AVERELL HARRIMAN REX HARRISON HELEN HAYES JOHN R. HELLER JR. THEODORE M. HESBURGH, C.S.C. CONRAD HILTON OVETA GULP HOBBY BOB HOPE EDWARD HOPPER HEDDA HOPPER ROY HOWARD SAM HUFF GEORGE HUMPHREY HUBERT H. HUMPHREY ROBERT HUTCHINS