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...Sooners adopted prohibition along with statehood in 1907. Six repeal efforts failed, in part because bootleggers (estimated 1957 gross: $100 million) lavishly shared profits with any sheriffs and other officials who were of a mind to make trouble. Against this aged blend of piety and politics, James Howard Edmondson, red-haired (nicknamed "Nugget Head") young (32) county attorney from Tulsa, entered this year's Democratic primaries as an avowed Wet who proposed, if elected Governor, to call a quick special election for repeal...
...Edmondson got only a drop of professional political support. Just one Congressman-Ed Edmondson, who happens to be Howard's older brother-along with two of the 165 state legislators, rallied to his cause, though a surprising flock of younger men around the state seemed eager to campaign for him. Smart money gave him no better than third place in the eleven-man first primary. Odds-on favorite: Dry-Minded W. P. (Bill) Atkinson, 52, Midwest City millionaire builder and hand-picked candidate of incumbent Teetotaler Raymond Gary. Atkinson was shocked to see Newcomer Edmondson beat...
...Croker married Bula Benton Edmondson, 23, of Oklahoma, who was said to be a direct descendant of Sequoyah, the Cherokee Indian chief (newspapers carried the bride's Indian name as Kotaw Kaluntuchy). At the wedding her hair was done in Indian style. Said she: "I have been inspired by the example of Pocahontas." When Croker died, at 80, he was buried at Glencairn near the bones of Thoroughbred Orby. He left some $5,000,000 to Kotaw Kaluntuchy Croker...
...read large print with difficulty, writes scarcely at all. Carver Edmondson does not smoke, neither does he chew, but he admits to an occasional medical...
...statue on which Sculptor Edmondson was working last week was entitled Sad Girl Sitting Alone. This and other Edmondson mirkels are less appreciated by Nashville's Negro colony than by Manhattan's art colony. Few have been sold...