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...Nixon seriously considered quitting Government, but abandoned the idea and told Ike that he preferred to run for Vice President again. Adams was toppled into ignominy in 1958 by the Goldfine affair, and Nixon found firm White House support from Adams' successor, Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, a genial Alabamian, and from ever influential Jim Hagerty...
...premature March squall, Tallulah Bankhead blew into Washington, D.C., and set up a noisier commotion than both Houses of Congress combined. Invited by Alabama's Democratic Representative Frank ("Everything's made for love") Boykin to testify on the capital's need for a civic auditorium, Alabamian Bankhead gave her blessing to the project, but begged off from appearing in a Valentine message to "Darling Congressman Boykin." Scrawled she: "Ten a.m. is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman." Since Tallulah would not go to Capitol Hill...
...Crimson won every event in which it entered, letting Andover capture the pole vault. Yardling winners included Leo Daley with a double in the discus and weight throw; Jim Cairns in the 1000; Dave McLean in the mile; Paul Alabamian in the shot put; Mike Robertson in the 300; Dick Wharton in the 600; and Henry Moore in the high jump...
...first compulsory civilian mass attack on syphilis in history, the city had blood-tested, tagged and treated virtually every infected citizen. A unique state law requires every Alabamian between 14 and 50 to take a Wassermann-like test. After some trial runs in a few small rural counties, health officers two months ago started the big test in Jefferson County...
...murmuring, "Good gravy!" Typical set: a remote Chinese village as cute as Christmas and twice as cheerful. Typical nurse: a little native number named Three Martini (Carol Thurston), who keeps her nurse's dress unbuttoned to expose a prettily filled Javanese brassiere. Typical pathos: a blinded Alabamian (named Alabam) who outhears everybody else and who, whenever there is dangerous confusion, cries: "Kin anybody see anything?" Typical use of music: a studio orchestra plays The Star-Spangled Banner, pianissimo, as the stranded stretcher cases watch the ship that refused to take them withdraw into a calendar sunset...