Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goaded by protests from abroad and a telegram from Secretary of State Dulles, Alabama's Governor James E. Folsom called to his office Negro Yardman Jimmie Wilson, 55, condemned to die by an all-white jury for robbing a white widow of $1.95 (TIME, Sept. 1), commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment...
Pregnant and ailing with morning sickness, Jamelle Folsom, wife of Alabama's mountainous (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, checked into a Montgomery hospital for treatment. Lumbering soon after her was Kissin' Jim himself, who sagged into a bed and summoned an old friend, Montgomery Advertiser Editor Grover Hall, for a hot scoop. The gubernatorial secret: although father of five by Jamelle (plus two by his late first wife, Sarah), sympathetic Big Jim gets morning sickness every time the lady of the house does. "Damn right," groaned he. Even liquor wouldn...
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 30--Jimmy Wilson, 55-year-old Negro handyman under death sentence for a $1.95 robbery, was saved from the electric chair Monday by Gov. James E. Folsom...
...voices, e.g., New York's Republican Representative Ralph W. Gwinn, and a few organizations that have long opposed federal aid to education, e.g., the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce. Among this session's most emphatic backers of federal aid legislation have been Marion Folsom, outgoing Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Detlev Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Missileman Wernher von Braun; and the National Education Association (which, predictably, wants a vastly larger program than any that stands a chance of passing...
...amiable bear of a man on the ground, Alabama's leviathan-like (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom while airborne seemed more like a barefoot boy with cheek. When he goes sailing off into the wild blue in his Cessna 180, Big Jim disclosed, he travels with feet au naturel. Reason: in his size 16 shoes, he cannot use the rudder pedals without stomping on the brakes as well. More interesting was another Deep South tidbit: although unlicensed, Student Pilot Folsom has been soloing on the sly-a violation of CAA rules...