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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...
...revolt of Kress Foundation directors that stripped Rush Kress of power (TIME, March 3). Command of the slipping company (sales slid from $176 million in 1952 to $159 million last year) will be shared by Troast, recently named President George L. Cobb and Executive Committee Chairman Frank M. Folsom. Their plan: sell off some of the chain's stores to raise cash for expansion, then lease them back...
...knight of white supremacy, first attacked Patterson for his K.K.K. ties, then shut up when he saw that the charge was backfiring in Patterson's favor. More important than the Klan issue was the fact that Patterson had taken a tough stand against retiring Governor "Kissin' Jim" Folsom and ridden the across-the-ballot tide against Kissin' Jim's political...