Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turn of the Screw. In Tulsa, a vengeful thug stole a police car from headquarters, used its two-way radio to taunt the cops in the station, got clean away...
...will throw their Notre Dame hex formation against the Deacons' light squad--the lightest team in House football, with a line averaging 160 pounds. Coach Carl Bottenfield said that his 20 Deacons are "very small." To overcome this, he will employ a special formation used by his coach at Tulsa High School: it is similar to the double wing except that the halfback stands a yard behind the line and a yard outside...
Strike Three. In Tulsa, Okla., Coney Lee Coffey tried for the third time to rob the Lucky Seven Grill, for the third time got caught...
Died. Edward H. Moore, 78, onetime schoolteacher who made millions in Oklahoma oil, became a U.S. Senator (1943-49); in Tulsa. A lifelong Democrat who turned against the New Deal, Moore was elected to the Senate (his first and last public office) on the Republican ticket, as an outspoken champion of rugged individualism. He was the first Republican elected Senator in Oklahoma since...
...Tulsa's station KOTV telecast a ten-minute program called Telenews-Daily, which the station had bought from Telenews Productions, Inc. of New York City. The Joneses sat up expectantly when they heard the announcer say: "Two wounded men from Oklahoma." They moved closer to the TV set and watched the camera pan to a close-up shot of a wounded U.S. soldier sitting on a stretcher. Mr. & Mrs. Jones stared incredulously. The soldier on the stretcher was their son, Sergeant 1st class Lowell Jones, 29, a World War II veteran who went to Japan last January...