Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brief Encounter. In Tulsa, Mrs. Robert Wallace, suing for divorce, argued that she had given her husband no grounds for deserting her, since she had been a "good and dutiful wife" for the 15 minutes he stayed around after their wedding...
...deal. Since pipeliners and oilmen continually drift around the North American continent in their private planes, the negotiations drifted, like some gigantic floating poker game, between Houston, Washington, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Finally the oilmen came to terms, and last week the private planes converged on Tulsa (it happened to be the most central spot that day) to sign a $400 million contract, probably the biggest gas deal in history. The terms...
...SHARP Tulsa...
...barbershop was a place where mustachioed blades could hang out and sing together in mellow harmony. What happened? The mudpack and the facial, the manicure, new-fangled tonics, lotions and powders, whirring electrical scalp treatments-and the barbershop quartet became a sentimental memory. Then, in 1938, a song-happy Tulsa tax attorney (and baritone) named Owen C. Cash organized the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Amateur singers flocked to join the society (25,000 members in 615 chapters in the U.S., Hawaii, Alaska, the Canal Zone and Canada), and last week...
Native Custom. In Tulsa, suing for divorce. Turkish-born Ayse Sebahat Southerland complained that her husband Louis kissed another woman in her presence, then informed her that it was just an old American custom...