Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Johnston Murray, 53, onetime (1950-54) Governor of Oklahoma, son of gallus-snapping, tobacco-chawing ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray; by Willie Roberta Murray, 47; in Oklahoma City...
...Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Kentucky. Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas...
...most cursory examination of the record will show that "probably the No. 1 wrestling town in the U.S." is not "Bethlehem, Pa.," home of Lehigh University. Lehigh indeed! During the time I was a member of the Oklahoma Aggie wrestling team we never once succeeded in scheduling the "hotbed of wrestling" schools, Lehigh and Penn State, try as we would. My understanding is they still are being prudent about whom they wrestle. Certainly Lehigh is to be congratulated on having produced a national champion ["Ike" Eichelberger],"but this is an every-year occurrence at Oklahoma...
Bypassed Phantoms. The gas bill's supporters, anxious to get it passed and rid gas producers of federal supervision, were aghast. The contribution to Case, suggested Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, was a "dead cat" planted by an opponent of the bill so as to cast suspicion on all Senators voting for the measure. And, snapped Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, Case had better be ready to detail his charges "if he expects to stay in public life." Between the time of Case's speech and the day on which the gas-bill vote...
Even with the proper atmosphere for composition, state songs still need titles. Composers could strive for the "sock it to 'em" effect of a state song like "California Here I Come." Or with New England simplicity, they could follow the example of Oklahoma, whose official state song is entitled "Oklahoma"; or Maryland ("O Maryland...