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...Baptist Association accused Folsom of "profaning a prayer." Kissin' Jim's reported praise to a parson: "That was a damned good Baptist prayer!" The governor was then accused by high drys of shamelessly grappling with John Barleycorn during a late-hour press conference. Alabama newsmen, not overly fond of Folsom, had gleefully reported that Kissin' Jim, brandishing a three-quarters-full highball glass, had told them that he didn't mind if they reported the presence of whisky in the room, and furthermore, that he was drinking some...
...University of Chicago, where young leadership is a tradition (William Rainey Harper was 35 when he became first president of the new university, ex-Chancellor Robert Hutchins took over at 30). As he moved in as the new boss of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty, Midwesterner Brauer (from Fond du Lac, Wis.) immediately announced completion of a detailed 16-point program to revolutionize the seminary...
...Peron, Argentina's ex-dictator, has a 16 year old mistress who is very fond...
...married life. For the past twelve years home has been a small four-room apartment-office, living room, two bedrooms and kitchenette-in Manhattan's Delmonico Hotel on Park Avenue. Last year Ed bought a 2OO-acre dairy farm in Southbury, Conn., where he can occasionally relax, as fond parent and grandfather, with his 24-year-old daughter Betty and her two children (Robert Edward, 1½, and Carla Elizabeth, 3 weeks), while Betty's husband, Lieut, (j.g.) Robert Precht Jr., is on a tour of sea duty...
...France, shapely, blue-eyed Diana Dors, 24, is to Great Britain. Diana is a platinum blonde whose indefinable chemistry and heady allure have been greeted with international enthusiasm. The blasé French have called her "ravis-sante." The Italians have sighed "Mama mia!" Even the British, ever fond of understatement, have referred to her as "Britain's best visible export." Not one to belittle herself, Diana, once carried away by the symmetry of her own 35-23-35 figure, cried: "What merchandise! And boy, how it sells...