Education: Sooner Back to Sooners

Joseph A. Brandt, a rawboned, red-haired Indianan, is a character straight out of The Front Page. His family wanted him to be a preacher, but by the time he had worked his way through the University of Oklahoma and got three degrees from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he had decided to be a newspaperman. Returning to Oklahoma, he shortly became city editor of the Tulsa Tribune. Then the fur began to fly.

When a big story broke, City Editor Brandt leaped from desk top to desk top, shouting assignments. One day a blonde named Sallye Little walked into his office. Brandt...

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