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...does not drink, smoke or swear, he delighted the backwoods by scorning a "monkey suit" at his inauguration. As Oklahoma's first G.O.P. Governor, Bellmon proved so popular that in 1966 he was able to pull in a Republican successor, Governor Dewey Bartlett, a Princeton-educated, Roman Catholic Tulsan in a traditionally rural-oriented, Protestant state. Democratic hegemony has been shattered, and now Bellmon is after Monroney's Senate seat...
...second day Vines shot 78 and qualified for match play. Trailed by a gallery nearly as large as the one that followed home-town Hero Goodman, Vines got jittery, lost his first match, 1 up on the 19th hole, to a Tulsan named Ted Gwin. For a comparative beginner, Vines was in good company. Put out in the same round were Goodman, Chapman, Yates, Argentine Open Champion Mario Gonzales and nearly every other name player except Bud Ward and Ray Billows (twice runner...
...neutrality," said he, is "an abhorrent thing," and "isolation" is "a dangerous anachronism." ∧ Proclaimed Dr. Colder Lawrence (Methodist) of Tulsa, Okla.: "I hold with Thomas Mann that 'Christianity and Democracy deal with the same human stuff' ... I believe we should go in the war." His fellow Tulsan, the Rev. Edward Henry Eckel Jr. (Episcopal) quoted Dean Inge: "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism when the wolf is of a different opinion." ∧ San Francisco clergymen held their fire until after Mother's Day, then let fly a volley...
...that a gentleman from Shreveport or Tulsa (the old chronicles are not explicit) was made acquainted with a Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked the Tulsan. In expiation to outraged Waconians, I concede that Waco is a thriving and beautiful city, probably near the 50,000 mark in population (including Negroes). Although the place is -* with Christians, transcontinental travelers, U. S. Highway 77, Canada to Mexico, need not hesitate to stop overnight, as a very good...
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