…Herbert Hoover,then secretary of commerce, became the world’s first television personality in 1927 when his voice and face (inset) were transmitted to an audience at Bell Laboratories in New York City. At the time, AT&T, Bell’s parent company, was doubtful about television’s moneymaking ...
and cold from springs along the Balcones Fault at a near-constant 68 degrees. So idyllic is the setting that only the bank-towers visible through the trees to the east and the apartments spilling over the hills to the west are reminders that it is only two miles from the Capitol in the...