Complex sentence: In 1977, when Crain Communications chief Rance Crain went to Houston to give a speech to the Houston Advertising Club, he spent an afternoon listening to the publisher of the Houston Business Journal explain how his publication was developed.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1977, when Crain Communications chief Rance Crain went to Houston to give a speech to the Houston Advertising Club. He spent an afternoon listening to the publisher of the Houston Business Journal explain how his publication was developed.