Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usually Big Jim goes for publicity like a drunk for a bottle. But last week he just slipped a posy into his buttonhole, picked up Jamelle (who quit her job in the Highway Department), and took off from the Governor's Mansion. Forty miles north, Jim and Jamelle got married in the Rockford Baptist Church. Twittered the brunette, 21-year-old bride: "I feel like I'm going around in circles." Gruffed the groom: "She's not the wife of the governor-she's the wife of Jim Folsom...
...then a downright embarrassing thing happened. Redheaded Christine Johnston, who says the governor is the father of her baby boy (TIME, March 15), filed 264 questions she wanted Jim to answer before her paternity suit goes to court. Hadn't Jim told Billy Pichelmayer that he and Christine were married and that she was pregnant? And hadn't he said: "Billy, us men ought to keep our wives barefooted and pregnant"? And hadn't Jim changed the baby's diapers and fed him his bottle...
...answers were locked in Folsom's enormous bosom; he was off honeymooning in Florida. But Alabama's voters gave one indication of how they were beginning to feel about their boar-brained governor. Last week they soundly defeated him as a candidate for delegate to the Democratic National Convention...
...Mississippi's Governor Fielding L. Wright gave Negroes some advice on achieving social equality: "If any of you have become so deluded as to want to enter our white schools, patronize our hotels, enjoy social equality with whites [I] advise you to make your home in some state other than Mississippi...
General Hu had to abandon Yenan to save his northern flank. Then he raced westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...