06/1956 - Glenn McCarthy is used to doing things in a big way, Sunday was no exception. The McCarthy family celebrated Fathers' Day, the birthday of Mrs. Glenn McCarthy, and the nineteenth wedding ...

Houston's hard-drinking, risk-taking Oilman Glenn McCarthy has a habit of making comebacks just when things look blackest. Once, when he had gone $1,500,000 in the red, and a creditors' ...

Glenn McCarthy cuts the ribbon of Houston’s Shamrock Hotel in 1949. But, over the years, the hotel struggled to keep up enough occupancy to stay solvent.