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What Florenz Ziegfeld brought to Broadway and Tabasco sauce to the raw oyster, the Rev. William H. Alexander brought to religion in Oklahoma City. He put zing into churchgoing. A strapping, handsome redhead with a rousing voice and a glad hand, the Rev. Bill installed pool tables, bowling alleys and card games for the kids. He let himself be chucked into the lake summers at the First Christian Church men's outing, and he wrestled all comers on the grass. He was not above presiding at public rallies in an old turtleneck sweater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: The Call | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Like most rural towns, America would eat well-homemade fruit cakes, mashed potatoes and gravy, roast turkey with oyster dressing. There would be presents under every Christmas tree. And in the America Christian Church, Mrs. Bertha Hayden held rehearsals all week long for the pageant of "The Coming of the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Christmas in America | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...gigantic hoax, in fact. For years, Adams boosters have assiduously circulated the fiction that Adams food was better. And the College, like an oyster with an irritant, has built up through the years a veritable pearl of a reputation for Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Peas Are Greener | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...under such titillating or shocking headlines as SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY or ROAST MAN (on a hotel fire). Promotion-wise Publisher Fox sponsored John L. Sullivan's bare-knuckled heavyweight bouts of the '80s, also gave championship belts and medals to rat catchers, oyster openers, bartenders and barbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Girl for the Gazette | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...considerably riled by the quote marks around the word Captain in your story on the oyster boats [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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