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Tau Beta Sigma was founded at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) by Wava Banes (Turner Henry). [1] Due to corporation laws in the state of Texas at the time, however, the Texas Tech sisters surrendered their name, ritual, jewelry, constitution and Alpha chapter designation in January 1946 to the local band sorority at Oklahoma State University. [1]
Ebell Society, founded in 1876 in Oakland as the International Academy for the Advancement of Women. The club's purpose was the advancement of women in cultural, industrial and intellectual pursuits. Francisca Club, private women's club in San Francisco; Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles, founded 1891. Its second clubhouse building, built in ...
The title character of The Pizza Head Show commercial skits. Mr. Peanut: Planters snacks: 1916–present: Popsicle Pete: Popsicle ice pops: 1940s–1995: Honeycomb Kid: Post Cereals' Honeycomb cereal: 1960s (Cowboy) 1980s (Kid) The Crazy Craving: debuted 1990s: Bernard, the Bee Boy 2010 Sugar Bear: Post Cereals' Golden Crisp cereal: 1949–present
Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
In the 1940s, a club called "Faye Emerson Plunging Neckline Club of Brooklyn" was founded as a tribute to American actress Faye Emerson. [149] Gina Lollobrigida raised eyebrows with her famous low-cut dress in 1960. [133] Hollywood actress Helen Talbot said that she was expected to wear falsies while shooting in the 1940s. [150]
The band held its debut on July 10, 1940 at the Huntsville Unit. Three months later, the prison system asked them to be the intermission singers at the Texas Prison Rodeo. [3] The band performed on Wednesday evenings in an auditorium in Huntsville and its music was played on WBAP, a radio station in Fort Worth. The band had fans throughout the ...
The opening of Six Texas Painters at the Erhard Weyhe Gallery in New York City in 1944 marked the first time that media coverage portrayed members of the Fort Worth Circle as a "compatible and independent-minded group". [9] Six Texas Painters was a month-long exhibition of thirty works by six young Texas artists, five of whom were from Fort ...
Lady of Burlesque (also known as The G-String Murders and in the UK, Striptease Lady) is a 1943 American musical comedy-mystery film, produced by Hunt Stromberg and directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea.