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Part Jolson, part Jagger, the nice-guy Oklahoman is an unlikely superstar...
Unlike many French companies, Hermes uses local talent to guide overseas operations. Says Chrysler Fisher, an Oklahoman who is president of U.S. operations: "The word elitist makes my blood curdle." Fisher has installed a toll-free phone number to make Hermes products available "to any customer in Des Moines." A postman in Waco, Texas, became Hermes' first U.S. designer after drawing scarves featuring a Pawnee Indian chief and a wild turkey...
...consider the field of fine speeches you had to choose from. As a competitor in the first round, I had the opportunity to listen to a number of the entries, and there were several impressive candidates. I recall in particular a speech delivered on the theme of being an Oklahoman that was one of the finest pieces of oratory I ever had the pleasure of hearing. So you and the committee that chose Ms. Fingerman cannot hide behind the defense that this was the best you could unearth. And if you, yourself, are convinced that this was the best undergraduate...
Still, don't look for bars to pop up all over the Sooner State anytime soon; the vote to give Oklahoma's 77 counties the right to decide individually whether they will allow bars was extremely close--425,155 to 396,600, according to the Daily Oklahoman. And in fact, in only 17 of the counties did a majority of voters call for amending the bar against having bars...
...MOVE to change the law picked up support from two unlikely sources; the Daily Oklahoman and the Oklahoma Retail, Liquor Dealers Association. In 1972 and 1976, the newspaper, the state's largest, published seething front-page, editorials against changing the saloon restriction. This year, however, with the son of the old publisher in his father's place, the paper ran a far more mild exhortation against repeal on its editorial page, a move McCartney says "was definitely significant...