Via Mike McGuff's blog comes a whole lot of time-capsule goodness: a 1965 mini-documentary by KPRC on how KPRC goes about putting together the news for its TV and radio audience.It's a world where cigarettes are smoked manfully, reporters are uniformly white and the intersection of Westheimer & Weslayan is a rural outpost of fields and used-car lots.We follow as a KPRC reporter pulls up to the cop shop to begin his shift; we see HPD cops answering phone calls."There are," narrator Ray Miller
In his 14 years as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Peter Marzio has increased the MFA's endowment tenfold, tripled MFA Membership and gotten it started on a huge new home. He hasn't done badly for himself, either.