Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Smoke & Feel. Canadian Eskimo art went unnoticed until 1948, when Jim Houston, 38, a great-great-great-grand-nephew of Texan Sam Houston, went north to paint. Houston was fascinated by the statuettes the Eskimos had made for centuries for their own pleasure and, once made, had tossed negligently aside. Houston took samples south, where collectors snapped them up. In 1951 Houston settled in Cape Dorset as the Canadian government's civil administrator and chief patron of the local artists. Once Houston had built carving into a business that grosses $150,000 each year, he looked for another...
...sluggishly behind. But last week three major sports could report progress toward bigger and better things. ¶ The fledgling American Football League is now solidly stocked with college stars of the past season, expects to be in full flight by this fall in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, Houston, Buffalo, Boston and Dallas. The money is pledged, and stadiums are available. Relations are raw between the American and the established National Football League, and if open war breaks out, it will be over charges and countercharges of invasion of territorial rights, and the awkward fact that some college players...
...Pines Hotel in Lakewood, N.J., turned it into such a bustling enterprise with the help of Sons Laurence and Robert that the family went on to build up the largest chain of resort hotels (including Miami Beach's Americana, Atlantic City's Traymore) in the U.S.; in Houston...
...politics. Humphrey Sr. was a messianic Democrat in the Republican heartland (he was converted after hearing William Jennings Bryan speak). A minor politician, he was mayor of Doland, served two years in the state legislature in Pierre, and, in 1928, as a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Houston, he helped nominate Al Smith...
...outbreaks were spotty. Boston reported up to 20% of schoolchildren absent. Pittsburgh was hard hit. Cleveland had 254 teachers out (5% of the force), and many schools had 15% or more of pupils absent. In Columbus and Detroit, the flu wave appeared to be breaking. In several Texas cities-Houston, San Antonio and Austin -the worst seemed over, but Brownsville and El Paso were in the thick...