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Named last week by President Eisenhower to be the second U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare: MARION BAYARD FOLSOM, 61, welfare-minded businessman...
...only Godfrey had visited the city when the mercury topped 100°, Montgomerians could be "doubly sure that he won't be back." Quick to take umbrage at this affront was Alabama's mountainous (6 ft. 8 in., 248 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, who hates the Advertiser ("them lying newspapers") as much as it deplores him, reads no Alabama daily newspaper at all. To Godfrey from Kissin' Jim went a sympathetic letter of apology. Folsom just wanted Godfrey to know that he is "one of the greatest entertainers of all kinds," gave...
...Montgomery's hilly Dexter Avenue, banners fluttered with the phrase "Y'all come.'' Theater marquees proclaimed: "Welcome Back, Jim." Alabama put on its longest (twelve miles) and loudest (126 bands) parade for the U.S.'s tallest (6 ft. 8 in.) governor: Big Jim Folsom, 46, making a comeback after one sorry term, a bastardy suit in 1948 (later dismissed) and other troubles. Once famed as "Kissin' Jim," a whisky-drinking merry widower, he remarried, paraded in an Oldsmobile convertible, with his pretty wife and six children (two by his first wife, four...
ELECTRONICS SALES, now at the $8.4 billion mark, will climb to $12 billion annually by 1957, predicted R.C.A. President Frank M. Folsom...
Businessmen seemed just as confident of the long-term future. Frank M. Folsom, president of the Radio Corp. of America, predicted that more than 350,000 color television sets will be sold by the end of 1955, and that sales should reach an annual rate of 5,000,000 by 1958. RCA, he said, has already invested $50 million in color television, is now going into production of a 21-in. color set to sell between $800 and $900. As for black-and-white sets, said Folsom, more will be "sold in 1954 than in any of the previous seven...