Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debunking the notion that boys west of the Mississippi don't do well at Harvard and after graduation are no good to the folks at home. Mr. Leighton points out, by way of example, that two members of his class have served as police chief and fire commissioner of Tulsa and Oklahoma City. But except for this, and occasional visits for speechmaking purposes, Dean Leighton remains, solitaire and all, a homebody in Cambridge...
...debunking the notion that boys west of the Mississippi don't do well at Harvard and after graduation are no good to the folks at home. Mr. Leighton points out, by way of example, that two members of his class have served as police chief and fire commissioner of Tulsa and Oklahoma City. But except for this, and occasional visits for speechmaking purposes, Dean Leighton remains, solitaire and all, a homebody in Cambridge...
Oklahoma oilmen took time off to go to an art exhibit last week, and swelled with pride at what they saw. On show at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa were 30 paintings that told the story of petroleum -step by step from geologist camp right down to the huge refineries, with their silvery tank farms and mazelike array of pipes and towers...
...found deposits were being explored. And Standard has kept it up.* In nine years it has commissioned some 250 paintings by 48 artists, sent many of the canvases on traveling exhibitions. Last year Standard began giving them away to museums, and set some of the best aside for Tulsa...
...week long Tulsa's citizens, from oil barons to field workers, filed through the exhibit, scanned the familiar scenes, nodded and grinned appreciatively. Tulsa was proud of the oil business, and liked nothing better than the idea of having it set down on canvas for everybody...