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Glen Doris Wolfe (June 24, 1939 – September 29, 2015) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Northwestern Oklahoma State University from 1975 to 1977, Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College from 1978 to 1990, and Georgia Military College in 1991.
Gaylord came to Oklahoma City in December 1902 and bought an interest in The Daily Oklahoman, which had been founded in 1889. [2] He became the paper's business manager in January 1903. [2] Gaylord married Inez Kinney of New York City in 1914. [1] In 1918, he became president of OPUBCO, the newspaper's parent company. [2]
The last edition of the evening Oklahoma City Times was published on Feb. 29, 1984. It was folded into The Daily Oklahoman beginning with the March 1, 1984 issue. [30] Look At OKC was launched in 2006 as a weekly alt magazine to compete with the Oklahoma Gazette. It was distributed in free racks throughout the Oklahoma City metro area until it ...
Edward Lewis Gaylord (May 28, 1919 – April 27, 2003) was an American billionaire businessman, media mogul and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Gaylord Entertainment Company that included The Oklahoman newspaper, Oklahoma Publishing Co., Gaylord Hotels, the Nashville Network TV Channel (later renamed SpikeTV, Spike, and Paramount Network after being sold off); the Grand Ole Opry, and ...
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. . Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1
Edith Cherry Johnson (November 11, 1879 – March 11, 1961) was an American journalist who was the society editor for The Daily Oklahoman between 1908 and 1958. For her journalism she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1935 and posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1997.
[1] [2] In 1916, the struggling paper was purchased by Edward K. Gaylord's Oklahoma Publishing Company (OPUBCO) and operated under the name The Oklahoma Times as the evening counterpart to OPUBCO's The Daily Oklahoman until 1984, when it was incorporated into The Daily Oklahoman and ceased publication. [3] [4]