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...corn gets as high as an elephant's eye, Oklahomans can thank their Senate candidates: Republican Charles ("Bud") Wilkinson, 48, and Democrat Fred Harris...
Minnesota-born Bud Wilkinson is the former (1947-64) University of Oklahoma football coach whose teams racked up one of the most spectacular records in modern history (145 victories in 178 games). He also served for a time as President Kennedy's top adviser on national physical fitness. Fred Harris is a Cotton County farm boy with a Phi Beta Kappa key and a law degree from the U. of O. He does not have Wilkinson's glamor, but, at his present tender age, he has already served eight years in the state senate...
...wife by her first marriage. "John," he says, "taught me a good deal about writing dialogue," and the blond, bespectacled Yaleman ('58) showed how well he had learned by winning the $10,000 Harper Prize for unpublished novels, which means that Harper & Row will publish his P. S. Wilkinson in January. C.D.B. has reached a certain critical plateau, however. Since The New Yorker published his first short story in 1962, O'Hara has read his work only after it appears in print...
WILLIAM ABBOTT Architect Abbott-Wilkinson Associates Glendora, Calif...
...matter. Such is Coach Wilkinson's standing in Oklahoma that he easily won his party's nomination, piling up 105,044 votes to 19,170 for his nearest opponent. But November's Election Bowl could be a different matter. There Wilkinson will face the May 26th winner of a runoff between Incumbent Democrat J. Howard Edmondson, a former Governor, and State Senator Fred Harris. Neither of these is any great breakaway runner, but after all, Oklahoma has only had one Republican Senator in the last 33 years...