Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorority sisters: "Every girl told me to give Senator Kennedy all her love and to tell him they would all vote for him." At the University of Kansas, Kennedy aged perceptibly while barely escaping with his skin from autograph-hunting students who mobbed him backstage after a speech. In Oklahoma City, a grey-haired lady gushed: "I've come to see him because I think he's wonderful." At a Washington dinner party, a tipsy woman flung herself onto Kennedy's lap, locked her arms around his neck, vowed eternal adoration. Kennedy unceremoniously broke the strangle hold...
...Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman. Kennedy rolled through the Midwest, where his Senate vote against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports had cost him the vice-presidential nomination, and came out with the support of Kansas' up-and-coming Democratic Governor George Docking. Says a top Oklahoma party strategist: "I have been moving around the state for the last couple of months, just looking and picking my teeth. Right now, Kennedy's making all the touchdowns." Says a Democratic National Committee official: "Well, if we held a convention next month, it would be Kennedy, period...
Died. Elizabeth ("Betty") Faulkner Henderson, 82, uninhibited café-society showoff ("I'll relax and behave myself for three days after my wake"), thrice-married widow (her last: Oklahoma Oilman Frank C. Henderson) who once (1947) hoisted a thin-shanked, 72-year-old leg onto a table at the Metropolitan Opera House bar ("What's Marlene Dietrich got that I ain't got?") and gloated in her success as every tabloid spread the exhibit across the nation (East German propaganda displayed it as a sign of "Life in America" degeneracy); of the infirmities of age; in Manhattan...
...said Notre Dame's Dick Lynch, "it was a do-or-die game, and we did it." Explained his teammate Nick Pietrosante: "We did it for all the Catholics in Oklahoma (total: about 91,000 in a population...
...back to their dressing room, most of the Oklahoma men broke into tears. "We should have pulled it out. We've been doing it for a long time," the Sooners muttered between their sobs. Was it a relief to have the long winning streak ended and the pressure...