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...been a state legislator at 22, a judge at 24, a multi-millionaire at 35 and mayor of a metropolis at 41, what else is there left for him at 53 but to build a suitable monument to himself? For Houston's Kubla Khan, Roy ("Giltfinger") Hofheinz, it obviously had to be a pleasure dome on the order of the Great Pyramid or the Colossus of Rhodes. To Builder Hofheinz, Houston's new, $31.6 million "Astrodome" - the first covered, fully air-conditioned baseball stadium -is literally "the Eighth Wonder of the World." When he showed...
...state famed for its wheeler-dealers, few have ever outdealt Roy Marie Hofheinz, 49, smooth-talking ex-mayor of Houston, who operates in oil, radio (Corpus Christi), TV (Houston), real estate and sports. Teaming up with Oilman R. E. ("Bob") Smith, Hofheinz recently plunked down $4,940,000 to buy from Hilton Hotels Corp. 494 acres of undeveloped land near downtown Houston. No sooner had they taken title than Hofheinz and Smith gave 29½ of their new acres to the state for a throughway right of way, agreed to sell 180 acres to the county at cost to complete...
...Cullen, flanked by his wife, three daughters and three grandchildren, sat down at a luncheon to hear himself eulogized by grateful city fathers. The fitting occasion: the publication of a Cullen biography (Hugh Roy Cullen: A Story of American Opportunity; Prentice-Hall; $4). Orated Houston's Mayor Roy Hofheinz: "Houston is so proud to have been the place where the touch of the hand of Cullen's has been permitted to fall by Almighty God." Then Cullen responded to the praise: "I feel humble. I am sorry the good Lord didn't give me a little more...
...Radioman Hofheinz broadcast a defense of the editors, added: "There may be those who say that Hoiles is a harmless crackpot. A man backed with a reputed $20 million and a chain of newspapers cannot be classed as a harmless crackpot." It looked as if Hoiles might have to mend his editorials, if he wanted to stay in the valley...
Harmless Crackpot? Then Houston Lawyer-Industrialist Roy Hofheinz, 39, who had opened a 50,000-watt radio station, KSOX, in Harlingen, joined the attack on Hoiles in an all-out crusade over the air. His station also began taking ads away from the Hoiles papers. Partly because he was pinched by this competition, and partly because they disagreed with him, Hoiles fired the three editors who had stayed on when he bought the papers...