Oklahoma breeds big, tough, silent men with hearts of goldsome good, some bad, some eccentricbut always men. In Oklahoma's heritage of oil, Indians, covered wagons, shoulder-holsters, pellagra, dust, drought and Bad Lands, there is no place for sissies. Sooners* will certainly not stand for sissies in their Governor's Mansion. Oklahoma Governors must be strong men to get elected, stronger to survive. (Of Oklahoma's eleven Governors, five were targets for impeachment by the ever-rambunctious Legislature. Two got hit.)
No sissy is Governor Leon C. Phillips. 49. One night last week he tumbled his...
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