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Died. Edward King Gaylord, 101, grand old man of the newspaper business; of an apparent heart attack; in Oklahoma City. In 1902 Gaylord bought a piece of the Daily Oklahoman and set up the Oklahoma Publishing Co.-today a conglomerate holding two newspapers, a magazine, eight radio and TV stations, and Oklahoma's largest truck-big express service. A staunch conservative and Prohibitionist, Gaylord practiced daily calisthenics, made business trips well into his 90s, and put in a full day at the office the day of his death...
Billy Mitchell and Eddie Rickenbacker and Charles Lindbergh. He died with Wiley Post, a one-eyed fellow Oklahoman who had twice broken the round-the-world speed record. On Aug. 15, 1935, the two were in Alaska on the first leg of a journey to, of all places, Siberia. They crashed taking off in a nose-heavy plane from a small, landlocked waterway known as the Walakpa Lagoon. The bodies were found by Eskimos, and a world went into mourning. Why? Because the years from World War I to the Great Depression were times for tears. Will Rogers often diluted...
...eight years Bench's senior: "He'll come out to the mound and chew me out as if I were a two-year-old. And I like it." That was only the half of it. Squinting menacingly at rival pitchers over his high Choctaw cheekbones, the young Oklahoman made his biggest noise at the plate that first year, belting 15 homers and driving in 82 runs-almost precisely as he had predicted he would at the beginning of the season...
...hallmark of the American political system that people think it makes no difference what politician is elected: most people think nothing can be changed by the political process," he drawled in an Oklahoman accent...
...that they were delighted to have him back anyway. Wearing his old No. 7 uniform, Mickey Mantle last week began his new career as batting, outfield (and sometimes first-base) coach with the team he helped lead to twelve pennants in 18 years. What brought the 38-year-old Oklahoman-now a restaurant and clothing-chain executive-back into the pinstripes? Mantle simply missed baseball. "If I could still play," he sighed, "I'd be out there making...