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...Bill Townes, 38, has been crusading since he was 13. As a page in knee pants at the Oklahoma legislature, he wrote a critical piece on the state senate, shyly showed it to a reporter. Next day it was splashed across the top of Page One in the daily Oklahoman. Instead of firing him, the impressed senators promoted him to chief page. When he grew up, Townes trained on the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, went to Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship (1942). Three years later, with Cleveland Newspaper Broker Smith Davis, he took over the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald and Journal...
Song for song, few of Tin Pan Alley's tunesmiths can match the havoc wrought by a gum-chewing Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...
Coach Lamar is grooming Dave Warden to move into Bottenfield's left halfback slot if the doctors pronounce the Oklahoman unable to play, and Sam Butler will probably be in the center billet...
This week Oklahoman Hurley threatened to break more diplomatic crockery and let in more light. Congressional committees vied with each other to get on record "the names, the numbers and the places" where, he said, "we have supported ideologies that are in conflict with the principles for which we asked our people to die on the battlefield...
Grey, ramrod-backed Major General Patrick Jay Hurley came back to Washington last week, presumably to resign as the U.S. Ambassador to China. The handsome, 62-year-old Oklahoman refused to confirm reports that President Truman would soon release him from his war job. But it was obvious that Pat Hurley's mission was ended...