Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense; New York Banker John J. McCloy, onetime High Commissioner in Germany; Dallas Businessman George C. McGhee, onetime Assistant Secretary of State; General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), onetime Commander of U.S. forces in Europe; Admiral Arthur W. Radford (ret.), onetime Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman; Oklahoma Oilman James E. Webb, onetime Under Secretary of State, onetime Budget Director...
Stanley, though probably unable to win the 200, could take third with a strong showing. Pitted against Frank Modine of Michigan State and Si Hopkins of Michigan (both of whom have done 2:22.7), Stanley's main competition for third should come from Gordon Collett of Oklahoma. In the 100, he will have to beat Navy's Bob Taft, who won the Easterns, plus arch-rival Joe Koletsky of Yale, who lost to Stanley last week at New Haven...
...benefits, took steps to grow even bigger. It launched a new hospital-surgical Senior Security Policy for people 65 and over. For $8.50 a month the Mutual policy will pay up to $1,600 in hospital or nursing-home costs, plus surgical fees. Already tried out in four states (Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and Georgia), the coverage is similar to that offered on a twelve-state basis by Continental Casualty Co. (TIME, Feb. 16). But Mutual is offering it in all states and U.S. territories and possessions, the first such nationwide plan...
Cagney is in fighting trim for his part, and the script by Charles Lederer, who also directed, gives him some fairly lively canvas to bounce around on. The songs are not much, but Cagney carries them off nicely in a hollered-out, newsboy alto that makes Shirley (Oklahoma!) Jones, the girl he doesn't get, sound like Renata Tebaldi. But not even the pleasure of catching Cagney at close to his best can entirely appease the sense that this is really an amoral little movie. Not even the greediest hands in labor's till have ever publicly demanded...
...father's ranch in the Oklahoma panhandle, Penn Phillips was taught about the value of land. Says he: "The nastiest thing my mother ever said about anybody was, 'They're just renters.' " He gave up a chance at college to go into business, became a real estate man during the Florida land boom, moved to California in 1921, where he built up a stake selling lots. His biggest successes came after World War II, when he recognized that the logical outlet for California's pressing population was the desert...