Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pick Loyola to beat Duke tonight and shock Cincinnati tomorrow. Admittedly, the Bearcats do everything well, but they have been showing signs of mortality this year. Cincinnati's 37-game winning streak was wrecked last month by Wichita, and they have just managed to salvage recent games against Tulsa, Xavier, Drake, and Bradley...
...severely limited schedule of appointments and public speeches; Bette Davis, 54. 1963 Oscar nominee, confined to her room at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, battling flu; Ted Weems, 62. bandleader, on the critical list after an emergency tracheotomy to aid breathing (tentative diagnosis: stroke), at Hillcrest Medical Center, Tulsa...
After a stormy five-hour session the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs last night elected Richard T. "Tom" Seymour '64, of Lowell House and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as chairman...
...words of one Oklahoma paper, "starts nowhere in particular and goes to a suburb of the same place." Even at the height of his power, Kerr still took the most pride in what he had done for his own state. As he flew over the flat land near Tulsa last month, Bob Kerr said: "If I live ten more years in this job, there won't be a muddy stream left in Oklahoma...
Wrong Skin. Franklin's cool dignity comes from his doughty father, one of Oklahoma's first Negro lawyers. No sooner had Lawyer Franklin begun practice in segregated Tulsa in 1921 than race rioters burned down his office. He went on in a tent, became one of the state's leading citizens. "My father scorned segregation as a mark of indignity," recalls his son. "He paid no attention to signs marked 'Negro' and 'White.' He went where he pleased, mingling with people like any other...