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When she was 25, she married William Pettus Hobby. She had met him first when she was around 13 and he was Governor of Texas. Mr. Hobby published the Houston Post. She plunged into newspaper work - at the Post. For six months she studied formats, cleaned out old files; for two years she was book editor; for three years she wrote editorials and a series of articles on the constitutions of the world...
Texas' ex-Governor William Pettus Hobby, jowly, steady-eyed, 66-year-old publisher of the Houston Post, dropped into Manhattan with his much-photographed wife Oveta, head of the WAACs, said he felt the same as he had before she got famous. "Anything she does is all right with me," he declared. "We're all proud of her. She's doing her duty...
...chronicling the appointment of Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby [TIME, May 25] you mentioned her husband, William Pettus Hobby, as being a "former Texas Governor." I am wondering if you didn't "miscue" on that one. Just when was William Pettus Hobby a Governor of Texas? Although I have never been "deep in the heart of Texas," I have kept a fairly keen eye on the political goings-on of the Lone Star State for the past 20 years, and I cannot recall that any man by the name of William Pettus Hobby has been elected Governor of Texas during...
...Hobby has a taste for fancy hairdos and shocking hats. In the Corps she will wear a uniform hat, but will probably continue to ruin the hairdos by running her hands through her pompadour while thinking. She does a lot of thinking. Her husband, former Texas Governor William Pettus Hobby, once told her: "Anyone with as many ideas as you have is bound to hit a good one now and then." As executive vice president and assistant editor of the Houston Post, she had so many good ideas on public relations that the Army's Colonel Ernest Dupuy asked...
Again congratulations, Mr. Doe. There is a tremendous amount of detailed work involved and that is the reason we ask you to cooperate by having your blank in on time. Sincerely yours, WHO'S WHO AMONG STUDENTS, H. Pettus Randall, Editor...