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THIS PROUD LAND (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Robert Preston narrates "The Sun Country," a special on Texas. Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, with New Mexican (by adoption) Greer Garson and Oklahoman (by birth) Pamela Tiffin pointing out some of the sights...
Admitted, Established. A small-time bootlegger with three months at Leavenworth to his credit, Oklahoman Sherman Billingsley had spent Prohibition managing a few New York speakeasies, including one called the Stork Club. When Prohibition ended, Billingsley took the name, and in 1934 set up shop with the dispassionate intent of getting rich off the rich. The idea collided with a need. Once again there were people with money, some of it old, quite a bit of it new, some borrowed, and not too much of it blue-blooded. And many of them craved a place where they could be both...
...pays taxes like any other resident. Yet last January, when he and his wife paid poll taxes, Mabry's receipt (unlike his wife's) was stamped "not eligible to vote." Precisely the same thing happened to his friend, Air Force Lieut. David M. Sneary, 26, a former Oklahoman...
...greatest nation." That one didn't score many touchdowns either, so Wilkinson came up with the old Statue of Liberty declaration. "We must," he thundered, "act with unwavering courage." When asked if he was a liberal or a conservative, Minnesota-born Wilkinson said only: "I'm an Oklahoman." And when he was questioned about how he felt toward a right-to-work law, a hot issue in the state, he blandly replied: "That's for the citizens to decide...
...Oklahoman Charles D. Whitwill had to beg and borrow to raise nearly $50,000 three years ago to open the first round-the-clock coin-operated laundry in Paris, at ten times what it would have cost him in the U.S.; then he had to educate French housewives in how to use it. Now his machines are coining profits for him 24 hours a day, and one member of Paris haute société sends her maid with the family wash in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce. When Chemical Engineer Frank Manley, 32, and his wife fell in love with...