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Married. George C. Wallace, 51, Governor-elect of Alabama and Dixie's whilom presidential candidate; and Cornelia Ellis Snively, 32, onetime professional water skier and niece of former Governor James E. Folsom; both for the second time (Lurleen Wallace, who succeeded her husband as Governor in 1967, died of cancer a year later); in a Presbyterian ceremony in Montgomery...
...good lightweight boxer. He settled in south-central L.A., boxed professionally and played in small jazz clubs for two years. He developed a heroin habit, was caught stealing a record player and thrown in jail. From then on, Sonny bounced back and forth between the state pens at Chino, Folsom and San Quentin, with only brief intervals on the street...
Died. Frank Folsom, 75, president of RCA Corp. from 1949 to 1957, whose merchandising genius sparked the television boom of the '50s; of liver cancer; in Scarsdale, N.Y. After joining RCA in 1944, Folsom reasoned that the job of selling TV, then little more than an expensive toy, was a job for the entire industry, not RCA alone; he therefore let competitors in on his plans for a low-priced set, then in the scramble that followed captured a lion's share of the market with such innovations as the contract system of servicing. When he retired...
...Johnny Cash records his performance At Folsom Prison...
...John R. Cash, 37. A solid coun-try-and-western success since 1955, he has occasionally crossed the boundaries and sold to the wider pop audience (Ring of Fire, I'll Walk the Line). He was rediscovered by the public at large last year when his At Folsom Prison climbed to the top of the charts and sold over 1,000,000 albums. In 1968, he made $2,000,000, and this year things look even better...