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...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...
...Senate-and lost. The two women who have come closer to the White House than any of their sisters-by reaching Cabinet level-have adorned TIME covers: the Democratic Secretary of Labor, Miss Frances Perkins (Aug. 14. 1933) and the Republican Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby...
...Houston Post, edited by former (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby, declared early (as it did in 1952 and 1956) for the Republican candidate...
...South's most sensitive issue, the race problem, neither paper has shown any inclination to copy the Press's boldness. The Chronicle generally temporizes, the Post-run by onetime WAC commander Oveta Gulp Hobby-usually maintains editorial silence. This month, when Federal District Judge Ben C. Connally ordered the city's laggard school board to step up the rate of public-school integration, only the Chronicle and the Press editorialized on his decision. The Chronicle was mild and vague: "It is hoped that all citizens will cooperate." The Press said: "Judge Connally's order...
...still lifes, and finally into the boiling seas of abstract expressionism. To show the full sweep, the Museum of Modern Art lent 46 of its own works, went to 17 other U.S. museums and such private collectors as Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Peggy Guggenheim, John D. Rockefeller III, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Henry Ford II. Before the show's sponsors were finished, they had gathered the works of 45 artists, including 17 De Chiricos and no fewer than 18 Modiglianis...