They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.

As the New South snowballs toward further urbanization, it becomes more and more homogeneous with the North -- a tendency which Willard Thorp terms `` Yankeefication '', as evidenced in such cities as Charlotte, Birmingham, and Houston.

Even better, they have the examples of Nashville and Houston to hold up as peaceful and progressive programs.

In Houston, there were a few incidents of friction between whites and Negroes, none of which were serious.

The program has worked well in both Nashville and Houston.

Houston police gave her a third, less flamboyant, title, prostitute.

And Houston police have the final say in the matter since she died there on September 20, 1960, `` Diane Harris Graham, 30, D.O.A., circumstances -- unusual ''.

Her neighbors in the expensive Houston apartment building told reporters that the ash-blonde beauty had talked at times about her past as `` the Golden Girl of the Mickey Jelke trial ''.

Several years ago she married a Houston business man, Robert Graham.

Houston police got to know Diane two years ago when the vice squad picked her up for questioning about a call girl ring.

His contention was denied by several bankers, including Scott Hudson of Sherman, Gaynor B. Jones of Houston, J. B. Brady of Harlingen and Howard Cox of Austin.

-- A Houston teacher, now serving in the Legislature, proposed Thursday a law reducing the time spent learning `` educational methods ''.

Rep. Henry C. Grover, who teaches history in the Houston public schools, would reduce from 24 to 12 semester hours the so-called `` teaching methods '' courses required to obtain a junior or senior high school teaching certificate.

SMU will play the Owls at Rice Stadium in Houston in a night game Saturday, Oct. 21.

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

Rabb, the former Louisiana State field general, came off the bench for his debut with the Bills Sunday and directed his new team to a 22-12 upset victory over the Houston Oilers, defending league champions.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

The bride, daughter of Rhodes Semmes Baker Jr. of Houston and the late Mrs. Baker, was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a member of Mortar Board at Aj.

Cecil Mason of Hartford, Conn., was best man for his brother, and groomsmen were Rhodes S. Baker 3, of Houston, Dr. James Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La..

Lee Jackson and Ken Smith, both of Houston, and Alfred Neumann of Beaumont seated guests.

Also being treated are Houston, Bleckley, Tift, Turner and Dodge counties, Blasingame said.

The top 3 students from 11 participating Dallas County high schools will be honored by the Dallas Sales Executives Club at a banquet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Sam Houston Room of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel as the club winds up its annual Distributive Education project.

From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.

One month later, Johnston was promoted to major and the position of aide-de-camp to General Sam Houston.

* Baker, Houston A., Jr., Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987

Rice's friend and personal lawyer in Houston, James A. Baker, Sr., aided in the discovery of what turned out to be a fake will with a forged signature.

* Jesse Baker, former NFL defensive end with the Houston Oilers and Dallas Cowboys

In January 1998 the library staff along with all books and much equipment moved from the Houston Street facility to the old B. M. Baker school on the south side, where the library was set up in the cafeteria and classroom annex in the south part of the school complex.

The crossover appeal of early contemporary R & B artists in mainstream popular music, including works by Prince, Michael and Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Anita Baker and The Pointer Sisters became a turning point for black artists in the industry, as their success " was perhaps the first hint that the greater cosmopolitanism of a world market might produce some changes in the complexion of popular music.

The programme, produced in association with ITN, featured appearances from Sir Ralph Richardson, Stanley Baker ( later a founder of TWW's successors, Harlech Television ), Naunton Wayne, Donald Sinden, Tessie O ' Shea, Donald Houston, Petula Clark, Tommy Cooper and Ralph Reader.

Today, there are also students from several other American colleges, including the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, University of Southern Indiana, Emory & Henry College, Baker University, Converse College, Eastern Illinois University, Western Kentucky University, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Catawba College, Houston Baptist University, The College of New Jersey, Texas Woman's University, Christopher Newport University, Missouri Baptist University, Ball State University, Lawrence Technological University, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, Florida Southern College, and Judson University.

He is also the honorary chair of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

James Addison Baker was born in Houston, Texas at 1216 Bissonnet, to James A. Baker, Jr. ( 1892 – 1973 ) and Ethel Bonner ( née Means ) Baker ( August 6, 1894 – April 26, 1991 ).

His father was a partner of Houston law firm Baker Botts.

In 1982, conservative activists Howard Phillips, founder of The Conservative Caucus, and Clymer Wright of Houston joined in an unsuccessful effort to convince Reagan to dismiss Baker as Chief of Staff.

In 1993 Baker became the founding chair of the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

* James Baker Oral History at Houston Oral History Project, November 20, 2007.

* James A. Baker, Sr. ( 1857 – 1941 ), American attorney and banker in Houston, Texas

* James Baker Institute, public policy think tank at Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States

Phillip Carroll is an honorary life member of the board of the American Petroleum Institute, a member of the Tulane University advisory board, and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and the University of Houston.

John W. Mecom, Jr., a young oilman from Houston, became the team's first majority stockholder.

His parents, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines, had three girls and two boys: Johnson and his brother, Sam Houston Johnson ( 1914 – 78 ), and sisters Rebekah ( 1910 – 78 ), Josefa ( 1912 – 61 ), and Lucia ( 1916 – 97 ).

* Sam Houston, Jr., 1843 – 1894

* 1915 Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. and his wife Rebekah Baines Johnson, parents of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, move into their home in Johnson City with their five children, Lucia, Sam Houston.

The wealthiest citizens were, in order from the highest real and property values, Gaius Whitfield, Goodman G. Griffin, Nathan B. Whitfield, Augustus Foscue, Francis S. Lyon, Gottlieb Breitling, George F. Glover, Simeon Wheeler, Daniel F. Prout, George G. Lyon, Henry W. Reese, Benjamin N. Glover, Cecile Fournier Poole, Evelina H. Henley, David Compton, Jr., Alexander M. McDowell, Augustus Zaiser, Alexander Fournier, Timothy G. Cornish, and Luther G. Houston.

* Charlie Ward Jr .-College Football Quarterback Florida State ( Heisman winner ); NBA Player New York Knicks ; Assistant Coach Houston Rockets

* Drayton McLane, Jr., former owner of the Houston Astros

* Drayton McLane, Jr., former owner of the Houston Astros, was born in Cameron.

He defeated Congressman Ron Paul, former gubernatorial nominee Henry Grover, Robert Mosbacher, Jr., of Houston, and lots of other contenders in the primary.

* Robert Earl " DJ Screw " Davis, Jr .( July 20, 1971 – November 16, 2000 ), was a Houston, Texas-based DJ known as a central figure in Houston's hip-hop community.

Representing the team owners at the announcement were Bob Howsam ( Denver ), Craig F. Cullinan, Jr. ( Houston ), Wheelock Whitney Jr. ( Minneapolis-St. Paul ), Dwight F. Davis, Jr. ( New York ), and Jack Kent Cooke ( Toronto ).

Business partner Jack Burke, Jr. and Demaret teamed to found the high-standard Champions Golf Club in Houston in the late 1950s, with 36 holes.

O ' Toole was born Annette Toole in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Dorothy Geraldine ( née Niland ) and William West Toole, Jr.

* June 25-Sugar Ray Leonard conquers the WBA world Jr. Middleweight title with a ninth round knockout of Ayub Kalule in Houston.

Stone was born in Houston, Texas to Gerald Whitney Stone, Jr. ( 1941-2010 ), an economics professor and textbook author, and Sheila Lois Belasco ( who share the first names of South Park character Kyle Broflovski's parents ).

Tom Byron ( born Thomas Bryan Taliaferro, Jr. April 4, 1961 in Houston, Texas ) is an American pornographic actor and director.

Born John Lester Nash, Jr. in Houston, Texas, he began as a pop singer in the 1950s.

Houston Dale Nutt, Jr. ( born October 14, 1957 ) is an American football coach and former player.

Houston Nutt, Jr. was born in Arkansas.

The sculpture originally stood in Washington, D. C. and was offered in 1969 by the de Menils to the city of Houston as a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. to stand in front of City Hall.