Word: folksing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A multimillionaire (real estate, timber, livestock), with an imposing mane of grey hair thatching an elephantine hulk (250 lbs.), Boykin's political stock in trade was a boisterous greeting: "Hello there, Pardner! By God, everything's made for love!" Funny thing was, Boykin really meant it. "God is...
But brotherly love is wearing a bit thin in Alabama these days. And among the nine Congressmen running for eight seats, Boykin was both the oldest and the richest; many Alabamans apparently figured that he was the one who could most afford to retire to private life. In 14 past...
Governor of Alabama from 1947 to 1951 and from 1955 to 1959, was trying for a political comeback-and everyone thought he would make it. His campaign message was one of moderation on Alabama's most controversial question. "The Civil War is over!" Folsom orated. "Let us join the...
Died. Amy E. Archer-Gilligan, 93, seraphic Yankee poisoner who made a profession of arsenic and old lace from 1907 to 1916 at her tiny Windsor, Conn., old folks' home, where more than 20 paying guests-as well as her two husbands-died under suspicious circumstances, who stood trial...
The names in this novel seem to have come from unpretentious rural tomb stones, the thin sandstone kind that a man could carry under one arm : Lizzie Yoh, Theodosia Garrison, Phrany Luck-enbill, Lutie Markle, Jake Loy. Palmyra Scarlett, Seranus Mast. They live in towns like Jacob's and...