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...ornate lobby of the Skirvin Plaza Hotel is jammed with ranchers wearing sweat-stained Stetsons, scuffed boots and $500 pinstripe suits. On the lawn of the nearby state capitol, black rocker arms pump oil from deep within the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kind of Witch Hunt: Seamy scandal in Oklahoma City | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

Died. Marguerite Skirvin Tyson, 58, sister of famed Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, coheiress of an oil fortune, a warm, friendly woman who collected French antiques, raised champion miniature poodles, and tended to the details of the parties that she quietly co-hostessed with her sister; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 5, 1963 | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...Washington's Colony Restaurant sat raven-haired Gwendolyn Detre de Surany Cafritz, all but unnoticed as she toyed with a martini, chain-smoked Kools, and lunched with her sister. Just four china-crammed tables away sat another longtime queen bee of Washington society, Perle Skirvin Mesta, the old hostess with the mostest. She had with her a single friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: New Frontier's New Order | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...support. His wife increased the family income by trading in the cotton market, a field in which the Senator, as chairman of the Agriculture Committee, was quite knowledgeable. When he returns to Oklahoma City these days, he holds his press conferences at the city's best hotel, the Skirvin Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: Mike over Elmer | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...blowout-when he became Vice President. She gave a huge "coming-out" party for Margaret Truman in 1946. When Margaret sang in Oklahoma City, Perle brought Bess Truman's bridge club all the way down from Independence to hear her, threw a big party at the Skirvin Hotel afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Widow from Oklahoma | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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