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When Theodore Bilbo died of cancer last summer (TIME, Sept. i), it did not mean that Mississippi was out of demagogues. Poodle-haired Congressman John E. Rankin automatically succeeded him. Rankin thought he might succeed almost as easily to Bilbo's seat in the U.S. Senate. Apparently he thought wrong...
Congressman John Elliott Ranlcin of Mississippi, who hopes to succeed his late, filibustering Tweedledee, Theodore Bilbo, in the Senate, let go a memorable tweedledum as he promised to carry on the filibustering. "A filibuster is legitimate," said he, "when it is legitimate...
Mississippi's special election on Nov. 4 to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Theodore G. Bilbo (TIME, Sept. 1) was shaping up last week as a mighty free-for-all. Four candidates had already entered the race, and several more were in the offing. The best early bet to win seemed to be shrill, old Congressman John E. Rankin, whose friends claim that he can "out-Bilbo Bilbo...
...long, so her teacher gives her only 20-minute lessons. Margaret can now read music, but can only pick words like "cat" and "dog" out of her nursery books. (Still, she likes to make a try at reading newspaper headlines, and last week told her mother, "Here's Bilbo on the paper...
Died. Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo, 69, who rose to be senior U.S. Senator from Mississippi on a platform of belligerent bigotry; of "progressive heart failure," cancer and other complications; in New Orleans (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...