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...browed Oklahoma oiligarch who likes portmanteau words based on his name. Such are the Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp ("Phillips" riveted to "good turn"), Philmont (his 300,000-acre New Mexico ranch), Philtower and Philcade (his skyscrapers at Tulsa). Oiligarch Phillips last week did a good turn at Tulsa, where the Philbrook Art Center was opened. Its aim: to make culture gush in an oil town once called (by Harper's Magazine) a "cultural Sahara...
...Philbrook was formerly Donor Phillips' million-dollar Italianate mansion. Its first exhibition featured borrowed paintings. But Tulsans put on a $50,000 drive to buy art for themselves, and by the opening lad raised...
Blond, clean-cut young Yaleman Eugene Kingman, Philbrook's director, plans to encourage local art and architecture, Indian art. Conspicuous in the opening-night crowd were the feathers and buck-kin pants of Acee Blue Eagle, whose Buffalo Hunt was also on display. Absent were Negroes. One Thursday a month will be et aside as Jim Crow day at Philbrook...
Willingness of the management to compromise is held to have resulted from three factors: unfavorable undergraduate opinion as shown by petitions sent to Verne Philbrook, Georgian president; the picketing of other Georgian restaurants in Cambridge; and the hearing before the State Labor Relations Board to investigate possible unfair labor practices which had been set for next Thursday...
...Verne H. Philbrook, president of the Georgian chain, declined to say yesterday if and when he would open the picketed cafeteria...