Word: pettus
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Sara Louise Pettus '66, of Berkeley, Calif., died in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, Saturday from natural causes related to a ruptured diaphragm. Miss Pettus was a member of PBH's Project Tanganyika. Burial took place on Sunday in Dar es Salaam...
...Pettus has requested that friends of her daughter who wish to contribute to a memorial fund should do so through the Phillips Brooks House. This fund will be dedicated to Mary's Institute in Dar es Salaam, the school where Miss Pettus was teaching...
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...
...Houston Post, with one of the 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...
Entering the crowded city room, the first desk a visitor runs into is that of a crew-cut young man in shirtsleeves, who looks like a cub reporter fresh from journalism school. The young man is, in fact, William Pettus Hobby Jr., 28, who last week was named managing editor of the powerful Houston Post, which is owned and run by his parents, Texas' former Governor William P. Hobby, 82, the Post's ailing board chairman, and Oveta Culp Hobby, 55, first U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Post's president and editor...