Word: oklahomas
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...polio. Of these, only one died: Patricia Redick, 8, of Tulsa. She received her first shot in April, then had her tonsils out, got a second shot in May and died two weeks later. In Patricia's case, two things were wrong: the vaccinations were too late, because Oklahoma's early polio season had already begun, and it has long been known that a tonsillectomy is dangerous when polio threatens. Proportionately, there were 2½ times as many polio cases (142) among children who received dummy shots as among those who received real vaccine. Still more encouraging statistically...
Modern American art stormed through Paris last week, the advance patrol of a U.S. culture parade that before summer is out will treat Frenchmen to everything from Oklahoma! and Medea to the New York City Ballet, the Philadelphia Symphony, and a collection of some 60 French masterpieces on loan from U.S. collections. As lead-off event, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, setting up an advance base in Paris, staged a big show of modern art, including not only paintings and sculptures, but architectural exhibits, photographs, movies, prints, posters, and barrels of modern gadgets...
Back in the United States, Seavey lectured a year at the Law Schol here and then embarked on a series of law professorships which found him successively at the University of Oklahoma, Tulane, Indiana, Nebraska (where he was Dean of the law School), Pennsylvania, and finally back at Harvard in 1927 as a full professor. He has been here ever since...
...salaried head of the area's Boy Scout Council, and as a businessman (he is a member of 17 boards of directors), part-time lawyer, landlord (he has an interest in a Caracas, Venezuela apartment project), farmer and cattleman (he owns 5,000 acres in Missouri and Oklahoma), educator (he was president of Missouri Valley College at Marshall), civic leader and public speaker (some 200 speeches a year at fees ranging up from $1,000). Bartle is all over the place. Last week Kansas citizens bowed to the inescapable: they elected H. Roe Bartle mayor...
Five years of drought have dried up some 250,000 square miles centering on the Texas-Oklahoma panhandles and stretching into Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. In places the underground water table has dropped below the disastrous levels of the 1930s. The drought has left more than 18 million acres "in condition to blow"; since November alone, dust storms have damaged 7,000,000 acres, and this week another heavy duster blew up. In Colorado 26 counties have already been classified disaster areas...