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...long, oh how long, America?" cried Tennessee's Democratic Governor Frank Clement, most eminent alumnus of Mrs. Dockie Shipp Weems's School of Expression in Nashville, in his corn-filled keynote speech to the 1956 Democratic National Convention. For Frank Clement's political future, it soon began to appear that how long would not be very: Clement left the governor's mansion in 1959, practiced law in Nashville and receded into an unwonted silence...
...last week it became clear that Tennessee would hear more from Clement−lots more. At age 42, he made a political comeback by beating two other men in a primary, which virtually assures him the governorship in November. He Won the way he always has−with words. Clement loves words−particularly the first person singular. In one 30-minute campaign speech he mentioned himself exactly 213 times. In the same vein, he recalled to a Centerville audience that "I came down here as a boy and cut a right of way 20 feet wide and dug holes...
McLaughlin, tired and bitterly disappointed, conceded the election after the second ballot. He was about 100 votes behind Peabody. McLaughlin is not expected to enter the Democratic primary, and Peabody will thus face only token opposition from State Registrar Clement A. Riley who trailed far behind in yesterday's voting...
...Clement made Estes an honorary "colonel" on his staff ("One of your caliber adds distinction to my staff," he wrote to Estes), and Estes cut Clement, his father and his brother-in-law in on some of his deals...
...Estes venture into which Clement and his kinsmen put some money involved buying up surplus barracks at the Air Force base near Blytheville, Ark., having the buildings chain-sawed into sections, and, after a bit of nailing