Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard, Kay, now 25, was singing with a new kind of voice. Howling down the horns had given her a husky growl on the blues-but she still had a sweet, sandpapered tone left for the ballads. And Kay, who was born on an Oklahoma Indian reservation (she is a mixture of Irish, Iroquois, Cherokee and Choctaw), was beginning to look like a girl the U.S. would soon be hearing about. Her record of I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town has already sold more than 100,000 copies in three months. And Capitol Records, which...
Great Expectations. In Oklahoma City, Officer E. W. Lawson forgave a woman driver three traffic violations in one block when she explained that she had just discovered she was going to become a mother. In Louisville, Speeder Ernest L. Woods assured the judge that he was transporting an expectant mother, got fined $5 when she turned out to be a spitz...
Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16 has reached Chicago in his shopping tour for a new football coach, but debate interviews with Oklahoma U.'s Bud Wilkinson and assistant coach Dal Ward of Minnesota he has made no announcement of his intentions...
Even with the help of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ada Lois Sipuel, who is a Negro, couldn't get into the University of Oklahoma law school. The Court, which made up its mind in an almost unprecedented hurry, had told the State of Oklahoma to give Ada an education equal to what whites get (TIME, Jan. 19). And at least one of the judges made it plain that a law school for just one pupil is no legal education at all. But this week the Oklahoma state regents established a school of law at Oklahoma City (as part...
...Southern states shared Oklahoma's hopes & fears. At a conference of five Southern governors, Florida's Governor Millard Caldwell put forward a plan he had long been plumping for. Since few states could afford to build separate professional schools for Negroes, why didn't the five states get together and take over a going campus, turn it into a great university* to serve all their Negroes...