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Rodgers and Hart's 1940 show Pal Joey about a handsome rodent of a gigolo was their best work and one of the greatest scores written for the theater--witty, melodic and cynical. It's never revived. Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration has been done (one would bet) in most high-school auditoriums, gymnasiums and summer-stock tents in America. It's been done by Guy Lombardo on water and by Fred Zinnemann in Cinemascope. On any given night, its score can be heard in a solid minority of the nation's shower stalls. I myself appeared...
...member House Democratic caucus meets to choose by secret ballot a new Speaker and majority leader. The current majority leader, Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, 63, a big, tough-minded Boston liberal who is committed to Carter, is unopposed in his bid to succeed retiring Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma. By contrast, four candidates are in the race for the majority leader's position that O'Neill will be vacating...
...nursing centers from itself. In 1970 the company declared bankruptcy, coincidentally a week after Penn Central did the same. Jack L. Clark, founder and president, spent nine months hi prison for his role in defrauding shareholders of some $200 million; he now runs a cattle ranch in Oklahoma...
...James R. Tolbert III, a strapping (6 ft.) former football player who lights his pipe with a chrome-plate cigarette lighter engraved "June 26, 1972"-the day Four Seasons emerged from bankruptcy after two years of ax wielding. Tolbert fired many employees, slashing the ranks at the Oklahoma headquarters from 500 to 26. Unprofitable nursing centers were closed and sold off, and acquisitions were made in new fields: aluminum and packaging. During its most recent fiscal year the company earned $2.8 million on sales of $75 million. The Four Seasons name lives on, as a subsidiary of Anta-a Choctaw...
...hobbled by a pulled or sore hamstring, Miller dons his Free Spirit before every practice and every game. "A runner like me," he explains, "needs muscle control when I stop, start and make my cuts. The girdle keeps my hamstring from flapping around." Says Dr. Don Cooper, the Oklahoma State team physician who sold Miller and three of his teammates on the idea last season: "The girdle provides an evenness of support over the whole length of the hamstring, from the pelvic bone to the back of the knee. We cut out the crotch to allow for la diff...