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...Tennessee's U.S. Senators for the last 15 years.* The man who dared the Boss's revivalist anger and self-righteous vituperation was big (6 ft. 3 in.) Yale-trained Estes Kefauver of Chattanooga, a hard-working Congressman with a prolabor, New Dealish record. "Red Pet Coon." Able, 44-year-old Estes Kefauver jumped into the senatorial primary fight last winter when Mister Crump gave the boot to servile Senator Tom Stewart and hand-picked John Mitchell, a hill-country judge, as his candidate (TIME, Dec. 22). Stewart decided to run anyway. Few politicians gave Kefauver much...
Bill Voiselle lumbered out from the bullpen last week like a shaggy, loose-jointed bear. On his back was a big "96," the name of his home town* in South Carolina. All he seemed to need was a coon dog jogging at his heels. With 24,174 pairs of eyes on him and the bases loaded with hostile Chicago Cubs, Big Bill began to pitch...
...northern valleys) masen. Ah believe that Ah've got a whole lot o' your bluid in ma own veins, and think there's a whole lot of it too runnin' in t' veins of a lot o' little kiddies o' the Yorkshire coon-tryside...
South Carolina's coon-shouting Senator Olin Johnston, who stayed away from Washington's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner because his wife was afraid she might be seated next to a "Nigra" (TIME, March 1), announced this week that he would nominate Dwight Eisenhower for President at the Democratic National Convention. This brought up two questions which probably won't be answered until the week of July 12: 1) Could the convention be stampeded into nominating Eisenhower? 2) Would Ike accept...
Singles--Backe won, 6-2,6-2; Pratt won, 6-3, 9-7; Wightman won, 6-1, 6-1; Ager won, 6-0, 5-1; Bullard won, 3-6; 7-5, 6-0; Swartzman won, 6-4, 7-5. Doubles--Coon and Fry lost, 6-4, 6-3; Backe and Ames won, 6-3, 6-8, 6-3; Swartzman and Hughes...