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After scanning a single page of J. D. Salinger's 1951 The Catcher in the Rye, the most avidly admired novel on modern American campuses, Tulsa's School Superintendent Charles C. Mason had one comment: "Shocking!" Mason was jarred when eight angry parents shoved the book under his nose and bitterly complained that English Teacher Beatrice Levin had assigned it to their 16-year-olds at Edison High School. The parents were not taken with Novelist Salinger's 16-year-old hero, a sensitive boy named Holden Caulfield who goes underground for 48 hours in Manhattan...
Understaffed. In Tulsa, Okla., Paper Boy Leon Stagg was told to put the police chief's copy of the World under his office door "to keep detectives from stealing...
...campaigning against the hypocrisy of Oklahoma's prohibition law, Tulsa's redheaded, young (then 32) J. Howard Edmondson won the 1958 gubernatorial runoff primary, brashly upset the Dry-favored candidate slated by the old guard Democratic machine. Elected Governor, he got prohibition repealed by referendum, went on to push for such general reform measures as legislative reapportionment, a patronage-free highway committee, a merit system for state employees. Still popular with the voters, he might have won most of his proposals had he not continued to snub the old political hands and to make...
...Wrong Vein. In Tulsa, Okla., the Red Cross dismantled a billboard showing Mayor James L. Maxwell donating blood, with the caption: "Maxwell-Good to the Last Drop...
When the Justice Department's trustbusters got an indictment against 29 major U.S. oil companies in 1958, charging a criminal conspiracy to boost oil prices after the Suez crisis, predictions were free that the trial would last six months or more. But last week, in Tulsa, Okla., after a trial of barely ten days, Federal Judge Royce H. Savage acquitted the companies. Said Judge Savage: "I have an absolute conviction that the defendants are not guilty...