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...years of the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee, girls have been the winners almost 2 to 1. Last week in Washington, the championship went to a boy: John Capehart, 12, a Tulsa neurosurgeon's son who competed against 49 girls and 23 other boys picked from 5,000,000 entrants. Word that tripped the runner-up: distichous (meaning arranged in two vertical rows, and misspelled distychous). Orthographophile Capehart's winning word, clinching the $1,000 prize: smaragdine (of or pertaining to emerald...
...would gladly contribute to Parchman's animal farm. With written permission from Governor Barnett, Jones sent Morris, along with two guards, off to fetch the horse. The guards and the horse came back. Morris didn't, and not until last week was he captured in a Tulsa, Okla., bar, a loaded pistol tucked in his belt...
...from the Bushes. Raised on a farm outside of Tulsa, Sellers quit school at 16 to learn to handle thoroughbreds in Ken tucky, won his first race a year later at Florida's Sunshine Park. But after a fast start as an apprentice, Sellers became an also-ran who found mounts as best he could on the bush league rings of the Midwest. Then, three years ago, he married Janice Lyons, a trainer's daughter, and the two sat down to figure out what he was doing wrong...
...some editorialists and cartoonists expressed doubts and disagreements. Said the Tulsa World: "President Kennedy has outlined to Congress a program so wondrous in its hopes, so broad in its ambition, that it seems almost sinful to wonder if it may be too far out of this world." Said the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram: "Although his picture tends to be overly grim, Kennedy has made a thorough and quite scholarly diagnosis of the ills of the nation and the world. When it comes to remedies, he is less persuasive. The specifics of his program remain to be tested in the congressional fires...
Greenburg has taught philosophy at Incarnate Word since 1949, with two years out as president of Benedictine Heights College, which was then slowly dying in Guthrie, Okla. He saved it by selling the grounds and moving the entire college to Tulsa, where it is now prospering. This year he became the first lay president of Incarnate Word (1,200 girls), where he has integrated science and religion to an unusual degree. (The college was racially integrated some time before the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling...