Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor leader must always know how the House is leaning on the issues that come before it. To help him, McCormack can always call on the Democratic whip, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, who, with his 15 assistants, can come up with a quick nose count in 24 hours, a firm figure within a week. (In 1955 the whip count indicated reciprocal trade would win by a single vote on the key roll call; the actual count...
Mortified, the editors of Corral, the Oklahoma State University literary magazine, last week discovered that there are cheatniks among the beatniks of the new generation. The poem they printed, as gloriously beat as anything ever incanted by Allen (Howl) Ginsberg...
Born. To Maria Tallchief, 33, prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet company, Oklahoma-born daughter of an Osage Indian, onetime wife (No. 4) of Choreographer George Balanchine, and Chicago Construction Executive Henry ("Buzz") Paschen Jr., 32, her third husband: a daughter, their first child (he has another daughter by an earlier marriage); in Chicago. Name: Elise...
...Oklahoma-born, Ruby Hart went to Cuba in 1923 as a Spanish-speaking stenographer, met and married James Doyle Phillips, another Stateside immigrant and proprietor of a modest printing and translating office. (Their daughter Marta is now a dancer in Madrid.) In 1931, with insurgent winds blowing all over Cuba, the Times took Phillips on as its Havana correspondent, and Ruby became his legman. When he was killed in an auto accident in 1937, Ruby took over his job. She has reigned since as the only resident U.S. newspaper correspondent in Cuba (although U.P.I, and A.P. maintain one-man bureaus...
Benjamin R. Neilson '60, of St. David's, Pa., was the choice of Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, and David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, named Kenneth C. Aldrich '60, of Oklahoma City, Okla...