Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors who invited Oklahoma's Governor Johnston Murray (son of ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray) to address the Tulsa County Medical Society last week expected the usual soothing syrup about the responsibilities of their profession. They found themselves under bitter attack...
...Conclude ... In Tulsa, Okla., Mrs. Emma Conway complained to police that her husband, after a spat, had: 1) mixed alcohol with her cosmetics, 2) smeared sulfa cream on her clothing, 3) cut the straps off her shoes, 4) dumped a hot roast with gravy all over the kitchen, 5) broken the bedroom mirror and two flower vases, 6) slashed her brassieres to shreds...
...Personals were started in 1932 by Poet Louis Untermeyer, who wanted to sell a pet donkey. He sold the beast so quickly through an S.R.L. ad that other readers began inserting bright ads for old books, jobs and pen pals. Palship sometimes ripened into marriage. Lecturing in Tulsa once, Editor Norman Cousins was joyfully kissed by a young woman who gurgled that she had met her husband through a Saturday Review Personal; he had lived only four blocks away all the time. One woman who asked for male mail and signed herself "Oil Widow," was deluged with 800-odd letters...
Malice Aforethought. In Tulsa, after burglars cracked his safe, took $600 and left their tools at the scene of the crime, Bowling Alley Owner Ted Sieler got a $16 due bill for the hardware, which the crooks had charged in his name at Sears, Roebuck...
...Informer. In Tulsa, Bootlegger Eugene Mace fell afoul of the law when cops, investigating his stuck car horn, looked under the hood, found 1) a large bug causing a short circuit in the horn wires, 2) 16 bottles of whisky...