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...information desk of Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman, a well-dressed, fidgety woman asked to see "the woman who gives people advice." A receptionist turned the visitor over to blonde Reporter Imogene Patrick, who soon realized that she had a Page One story...
Last week the unsensational Oklahoman (circ. 125,950) ran it under an eight-column streamer: IF YOU HAD A YEAR...
...Oklahoman didn't quite realize what it was letting itself in for. The wire services picked up the story, landed it in newspapers across the U.S. In New York, Hearst's tabloid Daily Mirror offered $200 in prizes for the best letters of advice to Mrs. H. In three days, 3,000 letters from every state and Canada flooded into the Oklahoman's city rooms; the telephones rang constantly with long-distance callers. Four out of ten letter-writers advised Mrs. H. to seek comfort in God; one letter suggested consolation in whisky. Hundreds urged...
...director of elementary education. But he did promise 20? butter, 40? chickens, a three-year contract with a starting salary of $3,000 to $4,500 a Year (Oklahoma City's starting salary: $2,000). Besides, he said reassuringly, Haile Selassie is "as amiable as an Oklahoman." The emperor promised to pay passage over, but anyone returning within the first three years will have to pay his or her own way back...
...dean hoped that "in the very near future" the graduate college would be open to every "intellectually qualified'' Oklahoman, whatever his race.* His audience-200 faculty members-clappea...