Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Supreme Court voided Oklahoma's first loyalty oath law last December, the eight teachers who resigned to test it have not, and probably never will return to teach in the state, and meanwhile another law, tailored to the Court's objections, became effective April...
...enjoy Me and Juliet is to forget Oklahoma, South Pacific, and The King and I. Certainly Rodgers and Hammerstein did, for their new musical is a leggy trifle, with an abundance of color and no significance. Hammerstein's characters in Me and Juliet seem cut from pasteboard to be maneuvered through a plot that's as corny as Kansas in August. But since the cast is talented and the staging fabulous, the show is a pleasant evening of lightweight entertainment...
...hero of A Summer Day has a heartache he did not help to make. He is a small Indian boy, an orphan shipped barefoot and alone from Missouri to an Indian school in Oklahoma. This is the kind of situation that is usually played for a lump in the throat, but Author Stafford never plays that way. What the reader gets from A Summer Day is a dry mouth and a hot, hopeless feeling of sympathy for the boy in his loneliness...
Died. Grant Foreman, 83, historian of the American Indian and the West (A History of Oklahoma, Indians and Pioneers, and 13 other books); in Muskogee, Okla...
Ruth Abrams, of Newton and Cabot Hall and Martha McCabe of Oklahoma City, Okla., were named class secretaries. They received the highest vote in a top-two-of-four slate which also included Joyce Bisbee and Torvey Johnson...