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Last week, after a roaring re-election campaign, Paul Egan clomped to victory with a 4,000-vote margin - 1,000 votes better than his plurality in 1953. Crowed Egan as he spat triumphantly into his desk: "It all proves one goddamned thing. You can't fool the people. The world is watching a new concept of government, where the people make themselves heard above the horse manure of the vested interests. The world will be hearing from Aurora in the next four years, you can bet your tail on that...
Alabama's high-piled (6 ft. 8 in.) Governor James Folsom, though a strong states' rights man, made a sensational offer to the Federal Government. On April Fool's Day, Kissin' Jim, clowning it up for the benefit and merriment of Birmingham reporters, announced that all of Alabama's National Guard helicopters were available for the asking to President Eisenhower for "golfing, fishing, hunting or whatever else he might need them for." Explained Folsom to his predominantly Democratic constituents: "[Ike's] health, time and welfare are worth more to the people of Alabama than...
...trash. After losing a TV job (to Faye Emerson) because she showed up drunk for the first show, Diana muses with a terribly revealing naivete: "For months, everywhere I looked, stories and interviews and photographs of Faye Emerson leaped out at me. Her name was like a dagger. You fool, you idiot! It could have been you on the cover of Look, of Cosmopolitan . . . It could have been...
...matter? The matter?," he asked. "Where are the limes you fool? I must have limes if I am to finish preparing my drink...
...price on her," Lawyer Paul Moore once said of his proud mare Seaton Pippin, "some damn fool will buy her." Some smart horsemen tried. But Mr. & Mrs. Moore just smiled at offers that went as high as $50,000. Men who knew thoroughbreds all agreed that Pippin was the finest hackney horse that ever lived...