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...because it brought together two magnificent figures--William Jennings Bryan and the great lawyer, Clarence Darrow. As an added attraction there was H.L. Mencken, who reported the story for his Baltimore newspaper. The climax of the play comes in the confrontation scene between the two giants, when the quiet, gallus-snapping Darrow, acting for the defense, calls prosecutor Bryan to the witness chair and exposes his Bible-belting oratory as so much hot air. A most exciting scene, this, and much of the excitement is due to the fine performance of Melvyn Douglas as Darrow. One scarcely realizes just...
Outside the Capitol at Atlanta on an eventful night in 1947, the January landscape lay wet with rain, and a low mist wreathed the statue of Freedom topping the limestone building. Inside, the Georgia legislature commenced the final act of a political drama opened 25 days earlier when gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge, after 20 years of politics and prejudice, died on the eve of his fourth gubernatorial term. Aware that Gene was seriously ill on election day, some supporters had cast write-in votes for his son, gone out to marshal dead voters whose names could shoot his total higher...
...Georgia, Herman Talmadge, 43, proved himself not only a far more polished platform performer but a better vote-getter than his late father, gallus-snapping Old Gene. Ex-Governor Talmadge, running for the U.S. Senate seat of the retiring Walter George, piled up a four-to-one margin over onetime Acting Governor Melvin Thompson, in the process carried every one of the state's 159 counties-a feat his daddy could never match. Winning an election at a relatively early age in a state accustomed to sticking with its Senators, this new breed of white-supremacy demagogue could well...
...Gene's Boy. Herman Talmadge, who now appears to have clear sailing to the U.S. Senate, has no such trouble on the segregation issue. He learned his politics at the baggy knee of his father, gallus-snapping "Ol' Gene" Talmadge, one of the South's most notorious rabblerousers, governor of Georgia for six years (1933-36, 41-42). Herman watched his father run the state with the fist of a dictator, spit tobacco at his foes and graze milk cows on the statehouse lawn. He also saw his father try-and fail-to do what Herman...
Divorced. Johnston Murray, 53, onetime (1950-54) Governor of Oklahoma, son of gallus-snapping, tobacco-chawing ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray; by Willie Roberta Murray, 47; in Oklahoma City...