Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more secure. Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper has enough popularity with independents to offset the advantage his rival, Virgil Chapman, will have in Barkley's candidacy. Homer Ferguson in Michigan, and Curley Brooks in Illinois are two GOP veterans who can reasonably expect to return to Washington, while in Oklahoma neither Republican Rizley nor Democrat Kerr can claim much advantage...
Truman: 9 states with 83 electoral votes. Arizona (4), Arkansas (9), Kentucky (11), Montana (4), New Mexico (4), North Carolina (14), Oklahoma (10), Rhode Island (4), Texas...
...Oklahoma City last week, a three-judge federal court ruled "unconstitutional and void" a state law that barred Negroes from the University of Oklahoma's graduate school. The judges, all Oklahomans, did not outlaw segregation, but insisted that Negroes must have equal facilities without delay, or be taken in with white students...
...Romantic? (Paramount) leans heavily, for inspiration, on such Broadway musicomedies as Oklahoma! and Carousel. The idea is to give the wholesome nostalgias of small-town U.S. life a coat of sophisticated varnish and, if possible, a new lungful of life. As it turns out, the picture smells more of varnish than of fresh...
...matter: a bluffing old Confederate veteran (capably hammed by Roland Culver) is deceived into fronting for an itinerant salesman (Patric Knowles) of wildcat oil shares. The wildcat is also a tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...