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South Carolina Governor James F. Byrnes was worried about an anti-segregation suit due for hearing in Charleston federal court this May. Regardless of the outcome there, he was sure the issue would eventually go right on up to his old colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court, too. Last week...
The Boss. For once in Jimmy Byrnes's long and lofty political career, there was no doubt who was boss. "In this state," he declared, "there can be but one government. That must be a government of the people under law. There can be but one governor ... I am...
In the happy confusion of Byrnes's inauguration, his predecessor was not forgotten. As outgoing Governor J. Strom Thurmond, 48, and his pretty wife, "Sugar," 24, packed up to move out of the executive mansion last week, a group of personal and political friends turned up to bid them...
The gamblers' distress was just beginning. Later the same night, the police picked up Old Grad Poppe. The story that Poppe told stole the basketball headlines last week: Co-Captain Poppe, working with his teammate, Co-Captain John A. Byrnes, had helped to throw three Manhattan games last year...
Arrested along with Poppe and Byrnes were two bookmaking brothers, Irving Schwartzberg (Sing Sing '46) and Benjamin Schwartzberg (Sing Sing '37), and the man police named as the go-between, Cornelius Kelleher, of no known alma mater.