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...spring night in 1921 the angry torches of 10,000 white mobsters set fire to Tulsa's Negro district. The flames roared through the tinderbox houses, completely destroyed the new $92,000 Mount Zion Baptist Church (Negro). It had taken Mount Zion's 600 members seven years to finance and build their first church. All that remained were charred walls and a $50,000 mortgage...
...Switzerland to sow his wild oats in some other country. His tutor was Charles Joseph Latrobe, nephew of the architect of the Capitol, a botanist, geologist, musician, artist. With these companions Irving joined a Government expedition bound for Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory (near the present site of Tulsa, Oklahoma). Irving wrote Tour on the Prairies as a result of the trip, after filling five notebooks with his observations. The Western Journals of Washington Irving prints the notebooks in full for the first time...
...other bowl games: Duke and Alabama in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl; Texas Christian and the Oklahoma Aggies in Dallas' Cotton Bowl; Georgia Tech and Tulsa in Miami's Orange Bowl...
Married. Dale Carnegie, 55, famed meeter and influencer; and Dorothy Price Vanderpool, 32, Carnegie Institute secretary; both for the second time; on the eighth publication anniversary of his classic How To Win Friends & Influence People; in Tulsa. Said he: "Even after I wrote that book, it took me eight years to influence a woman to marry...
Look Out. In Tulsa, a "Let's Swap" column listed: "Exchange. Unused engagement and wedding rings. Want automatic shotgun...