Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gene" had wangled himself back into the governorship by winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary was no puzzle to Georgians-even though his principal opponent, James V. Carmichael, had polled 314,421 popular votes to Gene's 305,777. The "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" had just exploited Georgia's county unit system of counting votes...
With that kind of setup, it was no particular trick for Ole Gene. Unworried by popular majorities, he bypassed the cities where Carmichael appealed to the voters (including Georgia's 650,000 adult Negroes belatedly enfranchised this year). He just concentrated on the farmers. Gene had always had the farmers right by their pet prejudices. Once more, he snapped his red galluses at them, borrowed chaws of cut plug from crowds, ranted about the Negro menace, the labor menace, the new carpetbaggers-and promised little but a return to normalcy, Georgia style...
Listening to Gene, the farmers had suddenly realized what it was that had been binding them so long. It was those damn clean clothes...
...Mankiewicz, who directed and co-authored the screen play, Somewhere in the Night is a taut, tidy package of suspense. But what 20th Century-Fox publicists are excited about is screen newcomer Nancy Guild, who looks, talks and acts a bit too much like the same studio's Gene Tierney for her own good. Nancy was a University of Arizona coed until LIFE recently printed some photographs of her modeling college-girl fashions. Darryl Zanuck took one look, issued the necessary ringing proclamation; a new leading lady was born...
...high-priced white-satin-and-silver coffin. Author Monaghan knows the Tom Horn country at first hand, has talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, has been collecting Tom Horn material for 20 or 30 years. A number of other writers, including Struthers Burt and Gene Fowler, have had their say about Tom. Last of the Bad Men ought to be the last word...