Broadway shines with Oklahoma talent in lively summer season
Broadway bursts with topnotch musical shows and dramatic works attracting tourists. Oklahoma bred actors like Gretchen Wyler and Glenn Kezar join the star stream, as critics praise My Fair Lady and Long Day's Journey Into Night. Bellwether acts include Threepenny Opera and Lil Abner with strong productions at major houses.
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Broadway
Barnesville
Gretchen Wyler
Okemah
Glenn Kezar
Berard Shaw
Moss Hart
Rodgers and Wammeerstein
Ticket Seavner
Rexy Harrison
Joe Andrews
Mark Hellinger Theatre
Wething
Greenwich Village
John Gay
Gerald Price
Jane Connell
Jo Wilder
Edward Asner
Lil Abner
AL Capp
St. James Theatre
Abner
Daisy Mae
Edith Adams
Ernie Kayaks
Peter Palmer
Polecat
Joe
Marryin
Sam
Stubby Kaye
New York
Auntie Mame
Roz Runsel
Judy Holliday
PhItt
Probe of Corps Refused by House Leader Vinson
Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee reportedly declined a request for a congressional probe into alleged brutality at the Purvis Island Marine training base in D C. The ACLU had charged widespread abuse from January to May 1956, prior to reforms after the April 6, 1956 death march, with six recruits drowning. Vinson said evidence related to pre reform period, and noted improvements.
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Wasiuincton
Carl Vinson
House Armed Services Committee
Purvis Island
D.C
American Civil Liber Union
Congress
Marine Corps
ACLU
Vinson
The
Civil Liberties Union
Council Blasts Gary Over Travel Allowance Bills
Oklahoma Public Expenditures Council attacks Gov. Gary for signing travel allowance bills raising county commissioners pay. It notes 153 remaining officials eligible for $140 monthly though no miles are required. Contrast with Texas County and Marshall County officials who receive $100 to $140 monthly amid road mileage limits.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Public Expenditures Council
Raymond
Gary
OPEC
Gomeil
Bonanza
Viners
Council
Marshall
Texas
Texas County
First drowning at Miami pool claims youngster
In Miami, Oklahoma, a year-old child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Esslinger, drowned yesterday at the municipal pool. The tragedy marks the pool’s first fatality since its opening 27 years ago.
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Atice- Ghostley
Henryetta
Summier
New England
Lawton’s | Gyn Jom
Buz) Crain
Peter Craig
John F. Cotton
Don Crabtree
University of Oklahoma Music School
Eva Turner
Ada Haritone
Virgil Riddle
Liberty
Miami Pool
Senate Group Planning Look At Gangster Dio
The Senate Rackets Committee plans July 30 hearings into Johnny Dio’s labor union ties. McClellan warned witnesses may trigger obstruction tactics as the probe targets Dio and his followers in the New York City Teamsters power struggle.
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Washington
Senate
New York
Johnny Dio
McClellan
D-Ark
Congress
Teamsters Union
New York City
United Textile Workers
Anthony Valente
Lloyd
Kiewart
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Meany
AFL
Valente
Klewert
UTW
James R. Hoffa
Midwest Teamsters Union
Hoffa
John Dye Cheasty
Slatf
Dio
John Dioguard
Victor Riesel
Riesel
Train vs Bull in Toulouse Rescue by Dogs
An enraged bull charged a Foix Toulouse passenger train near Toulouse France Saturday night repeatedly striking the engine. Passengers and crew stayed inside as the train stalled. Several shaggy dogs then appeared and chased the bull away, allowing rescuers to stabilize the scene.
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Toulouse
France
Foix
Emergency aid rush saves woman on turnpike
Stroud Oklahoma troopers aided in delivering an urgent anti tetanus toxin to Mrs Georgie Harvey five who cut her hand in a fall a week ago and showed tetanus symptoms. Lt H E C Clark picked up the drug in Oklahoma City and relayed it to Trooper Kent Payne who transported it to Chandler then to a hospital.
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Stroud
Oklo
Highway Patrol
Georgie Harvey
Oklahoma City
Kent
Payne
Turner ‘Turnpike
Chandler
Art Phelps
Crying Tree Delights Dallas Family With Water Mist
In Dallas a tree on a crying jag keeps the Werner family cool as branches spritz jets of clear liquid. Werner, the nurseryman, said from a distance it looks like a fine mist and that the trunk may have swollen with water after heavy spring rains.
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Dallas -F
W. S. Werners
Werner
China Adventurer Back To U S Home Homecoming Returns From Red China
An American businessman Donald J. Blackwood his Korean wife and child left Hong Kong for Tokyo Seattle and Cincinnati as they end an unauthorized four month stay in Red China. Blackwoods arrived July 12 in Macao then traveled to Hong Kong. Father James W. Blackwood says there will be no celebration as the family returns home.
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Hong Kong
Cincinnati
Red China
Donald J. Blackwood
Tokyo
Seattle
James W. Blackwood
Jin Hong Kong
Macao
China
Lawton Constitution 1957 Note On Expulsion And Family Move
A fragment from Lawton Constitution dated July 22 1957 describes legal regulation actions and an expelled individual. It mentions a father quoting a son named Donald requesting a quiet return and hints at a family plan involving Cincinnati with a seat tomorrow and a destination in Cincinnati, reflecting a swift family movement and unresolved details.
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Lawton
Donald
Idla
Seattom Row
Cincinnati
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