Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Post-Herald, making its bow this week, combined the staffs as well as the names of the two old papers, although 200 persons lost their jobs. The Post-Herald carried the familiar Scripps-Howard lighthouse on Page One, and was edited by a Scripps-Howard holdover, 49-year-old James E. Mills. But under the 30-year contract signed by the Hanson and Howard interests, more than 80% of the annual gross profits (up to $3,000,000) from the new paper will go to the Hansons. Yet the deal was the best Howard could make under the circumstances...
...sent her seventh-graders out on their sociological expeditions as part of an experiment designed to make Houston's civics classes more interesting and instructive. The kids began by drawing maps of their neighborhoods, comparing the number of churches to the number of bars, counting parks and playgrounds. They investigated everything from slums to sewers, from garbage cans to gutters...
Unlike some of their elders, the young investigators were not content to make their reports and forget about them. Billy Buttelmann had found that there was no playground for blocks around for the younger kids in his neighborhood. Billy and a friend decided to build a clubhouse in a big, unused backyard. Soon the kids were playing there instead of in the streets...
...rooms. Richard Gump, the iconoclastic, 44-year-old president of Gump's famed art store in San Francisco, thinks that's a shame. "Why not baseball or football pictures?" he asks. "Those frozen hunting prints have become purely functional, like door knobs. Pictures mean nothing unless they make sense to the man who looks at them...
Last week Gump's put 250 sporting prints, drawings, sculptures and paintings on exhibition to prove that rumpus-room art can make sense to contemporary U.S. citizens. The show went back three centuries, included an engraving of the Duke of York (later King James II) playing tennis. There were paintings and prints of boxing, football, baseball, hockey, skiing and golf-and an early 19th Century engraving, Playing at Bomble Puppy...