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...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...
...most respects it was a typical Oklahoma primary, but there was a new feature: this was the first time that troops have been used. Murray ordered the National Guard out after getting reports that votes were being bought in five counties. The Daily Oklahoman dismissed as a futile gesture "a cordon of bayonet-bearing troops around every voting precinct in five counties." But Murray was not impressed. If he hears of more vote-buying, he said, he will order the troops out for the runoff on July...
Mickey remembers that his father never bothered to read anything except the sports section of the Daily Oklahoman. "Baseball, that's all he lived for," says Mickey. "He used to say that it seemed to him like he just died in the winter, until the time when baseball came around again...
...Angeles' Lee Mullican, 32, is a lanky (6 ft. 4 in.), transplanted Oklahoman with prematurely grey hair and a bird's-eye approach to art. His bright abstractions have a rarefied upper-air look, almost as if they were terrain studies done from 30,000 ft. There is good reason for this. Lee Mullican discovered his personal art style as a member of a topographical battalion in World War II- drawing operations maps from aerial photographs...
...world of peephole journalism, there is no more beautiful relationship than that between Columnist Walter Winchell and Sherman Billingsley, owner of Manhattan's famed Stork Club. Oklahoman Billingsley dates the beginning of his club's fabulous success from the day Winchell first came in and pronounced it "the New Yorkiest place in town." Since then Winchell has always had his own table there, and uses the Stork as his night office. There, he has planned many of the crusades which have gradually promoted him in his own esteem from gossip reporter to the foremost champion of human rights...