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Even more surprising to the 1980s sensibility is the fact that Maria Halpin remained obscure during the public sensation and later. Incredible. Had she lived in today's tattletale milieu, the mother of little Oscar Folsom Cleveland would have bounced from magazine covers right into the hot seats of Donahue and Nightline. Agents would have hatched deals for books, movies, interviews, docudramas and maybe a stint of modeling to launch a new line of lingerie called Grover's Corners...
...transcontinental trek in support of nuclear disarmament, celebrated the fact that they had finally made it from coast to coast. The marchers, about 400 of whom had made the more than 3,200-mile trip that began in Los Angeles 237 days earlier, ranged from sprightly children to Franklin Folsom, 79, who celebrated his golden wedding anniversary with his wife along the route...
When I try to explain the use of celestial imagery in Henry IV, my classmates snicker and giggle at each polysyllabic word I pronounce, as if they think I would be much more at home singing "Folsom Prison Blues" (which I do quite well, incidentally), than talking about literature. Worse are the people who think they have to explain everything to me slowly, as if I can't think faster than I talk...
Then the New Right took on Jim Folsom, who had beaten Democratic Senator Donald Stewart in the primary. An intense ad campaign suggested that Folsom was backed by the Democratic National Committee and therefore supported its stands on ERA, gun control, federal funding of abortions, and gay rights. Not only did Folsom endorse none of those positions, but he insists he took no money from the D.N.C. On Nov. 4, Folsom lost, 48% to 51%, to Denton. The Moral Majority, says Folsom, had "a tremendous effect on my defeat...
Alabama. Ask any Alabaman. How could the son of "Kissin' Jim" Folsom, the state's popular former Governor, fail to win a statewide election? But that is what happened when "Little Jim" ran up against retired Admiral Jeremiah Denton, 56, who was riding a surge of Southern patriotism. Denton, who spent 7½ years in a North Viet Nam prison after his plane was shot down, went on the air waves with the warning: "Our military is in the worst shape it has been since George Washington walked around barefoot at Valley Forge...