Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their pictures taken for posterity yesterday. Jeremy W. Gorman '49 of Kirkland House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, was chosen swimming captain, Daniel B. Ray '49 of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, N. Y., was picked as wrestling captain, and John W. Ager, Jr. '49 of Kirkland House and Birmingham, Alabama, was elected to lead the fencers. James J. Tracy '50 of Eliot House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, was appointed swimming manager...
...Alabama," the President replied...
...Alabama's hulking Governor "Big Jim" Folsom hulked into Manhattan to be installed as "No. 1 Leap Year Bachelor" by the publicity-conscious Barbizon Studio of Fashion Modeling. In the course of a much-photographed kissing tour of the city, he managed to stop traffic on Fifth Avenue.* He also delivered himself of an opinion on the Marshall Plan which disclosed that he had not altogether forgotten the paternity suit against him (TIME, March 15): "When it comes a-weanin' time [those European countries] are gonna squeal. You ever weaned a baby, honey? No? You try it, honey...
...Alabama's huge (6 ft. 8 in., 260 Ibs.), boar-browed Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom was feeling fine when he set out on a drive to Washington last week. He hoped to testify before a congressional committee on tidelands oil. He planned to go to New York to see some fashion models who had voted him No. I Leap Year Bachelor, and thus get his picture in the papers. As a self-avowed presidential candidate, he also hoped to rebroadcast a campaign promise-that he would take his "ole cornshuck mop and his ole suds bucket...
...baby (11 Ibs.) in Nashville, recorded his name as James Douglas Johnston, and, on directions from Big Jim, "withheld the birth of the child from press publicity." She did not complain-Big Jim was running for governor and had promised to make her the "first lady of Alabama" afterwards. She didn't even object to his campaign methods: he traveled to the "crossroads, the branch-heads and the brush arbors" with a hillbilly band, called on it to strike up a tune called "Pucker up, Honey, Jim Folsom's Comin'," and then galumphed through crowds kissing...