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...COLLIER Memphis, Tenn...
Beaten to publication by one week was your interesting Feb. 26 article concerning the Carville, La. leprosarium. Closely paralleling it was an article in Collier's by Dr. Victor G. Heiser, in which he differed with yours on one highly significant point...
...town. All the lawyer had to promise in return was to develop an intelligent, invigorating opposition to the all-powerful Crump political organization. Nothing came of this ingenious idea for keeping the Crumpets in fighting trim, so Ed Crump had to go on putting up with Tom Collier...
...Collier is as well known in Memphis as Ed Crump himself. He acquired his pronounced dislike for the Crump machine from his daddy, a white-bearded Confederate veteran who owned valuable property in Memphis and refused to pay taxes to Crump collectors. Tom Collier, who is a lawyer by avocation, devoted years to not paying taxes, finally lost much of his family's rich inheritance after 32 years of litigation and 750 tax suits. Between times he kept in trim by running barefoot in the early morning, accommodated the local photographers with outlandish poses (see cut), regularly...
Against old (62) Tom Collier were two other negligible independents and Mr.Crump's brassy, psalm-singing Police Commissioner Clifford Davis. The vote: Tom Collier, 520; Clifford Davis, 30,300.Declared beaten but unbowed Tom Collier on election night : "If the people of Mem phis want to remain cowed and contented, that's their business - but I won't. I'll be in there fighting again...