Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exists around, inside, over and under the old. Roy Collins these days walks to the governor's office from a stately old Tallahassee home, "The Grove," that has been in his wife's family for five generations; it was built in the 18205 by Governor Richard Keith Call, twice the territorial governor of Florida, the great-grandfather of the present governor's lady, Mary Call Darby Collins...
...after day, he deals calmly and skillfully with Florida politics, which carries into the atomic age the miasmic mist and the alligator snap of the deepest Florida swamp. The job keeps him busy. The other day, his 13-year-old daughter Mary Call asked him, "What's a lieutenant governor?" (the office does not exist...
...Lebanon, Tenn. He finished the one-year course and passed the Florida bar exam with the second highest grade ever scored until then. "I came home," said Roy Collins, "boldly hung out my shingle-and proceeded to starve." Early in 1932 Roy spoke of marriage to dark-eyed Mary Call Darby, but there was a practical difficulty: "My law practice was earning me about $34 a month." So Roy ran for the job of Leon County prosecutor, which paid enough...
...campaigned over every inch of Leon County," he said, "and Mary Call worked almost as hard as I did. The net result was that I wound up getting beat by about 100 votes." Three weeks later, on June 29, 1932, Roy Collins and Mary Call were married...
...Chicago hotel. Says his wife: "Since he only had four, we didn't know what in heaven's name he was going to do.") He finally left Tampa for a 100-mile drive to Ocala, where he was to meet his wife and daughters Jane and Mary Call at a football game. "Boy," said the governor nervously, "if we don't get there by halftime, Jane will have my hide." He got there, but it hardly mattered. Moppets swarmed over him so that he could not see the field. He treated each with courtly courtesy, autographing crackerjack...