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Bath Water & Baby. Oklahoma-born, Los Angeles-reared James Albert Pike was always one to stick his neck out. So uncompromising was his Catholicism that he turned down a scholarship to Harvard to go to a Catholic college-California's Jesuit University of Santa Clara. But after two years there, his faith in the Church of Rome was gone, and with it his faith in Christianity ("I threw out the baby with the bath water," he says). He switched to the University of Southern California, followed it up with Yale Law School...
Blitzing New Jersey, New Hampshire and New York last week in an assault on G.O.P. Eastern strongholds, Estes Kefauver ignored noisy Eisenhower enthusiasts among his street-corner crowds and an Oklahoma-born cold that reduced his drawling dramatics to a-hoarse whisper. But the vice-presidential nominee and aides were hard put to ignore what they considered a pointed dig: the absence of New York Democratic bigwigs from the Syracuse-Rochester-Buffalo area when Kefauver made a one-day stand in upper New York state...
...forsaken girl Simaitha gathers magic spells, then tells the moon goddess how she met her lover, goes on to tell how she became his mistress, and finally explains his desertion and her determination to win him back. Sessions scarcely lets the soprano come up for air. At Louisville, Oklahoma-born Singer Audrey Nossaman needed all her excellent technique-and her strength -for some 40 minutes of music...
...Candid Cameraman. Oklahoma-born George Clark started drawing at five, and at 16 began cartooning for Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman and Times. He became a staff artist for the Cleveland Press before he was 21. Later, free-lancing in New York, he thought up and sold a cartoon panel called "Side Glances" to N.E.A. Service, Inc. In 1939 he quit for a better deal with the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. (With a new artist, N.E.A. continued to syndicate "Side Glances," which is often confused with "The Neighbors...
...that job, Larson, an Oklahoma-born lawyer and World War II artillery colonel, has proved that he has resourcefulness and shrewd bargaining ability. Last December, when natural rubber soared to 78? a lb., Larson took over the buying of all U.S. rubber imports, then resold the rubber to private industry at a loss. By so doing, he drove the import price down to its present 46? a lb., but Larson is selling to industry at 52? until the Government's loss on the purchases is recovered, As head of DMPA, Larson will be responsible to Charlie Wilson for finding...