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...answers were locked in Folsom's enormous bosom; he was off honeymooning in Florida. But Alabama's voters gave one indication of how they were beginning to feel about their boar-brained governor. Last week they soundly defeated him as a candidate for delegate to the Democratic National Convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: Going Around in Circles | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: A Man Was the Cause of It All | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland also had his day of triumph. At the Reading (Pa.) Fair, his 725-lb. boar was champion in the open Hampshire class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Roses All the Way | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...tells is as damply sentimental as any screened by Moses Fable. But his eye is as sharp as a vermicologist's for the peculiar inhabitants of the peculiar Hollywood world-a world that Dirty Eddie holds in his mouth like a candied apple in a delicatessen' boar's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Star Is Farrowed | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...then the crowds (70,000 daily*) that come to the zoo have had to content themselves with substitutes. They watch six monkeys and two house cats play in the huge polar bear caves, stare at the modest antics of a Jersey cow, now the sole occupant of the wild boar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tiger, Tiger | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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