Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of Jan. 14, when Georgia's legislature met to elect a successor to Governor Gene Talmadge, son Herman's chances were slim. In the first count of write-in ballots, he was running third among the contenders, and the new governor was to be chosen from the top two. Then, suddenly, 58 new votes-all from Talmadge's home county of Telfair-put Hummon back into the running. Ever since then, thoughtful Georgians have been wondering about those 58 votes. Last week they found out. After a month of cloak-&-dagger sleuthing, the Atlanta Journal splashed...
...during the war, and is now making a comeback-without one of his earlier singing stars, Perry Como. Last week Weems & his band opened in a famous jive spot, the College Inn of Chicago's Hotel Sherman, the oldest nightclub in the U.S., where Jazzmen Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Gene Krupa made some of their loudest noises, and biggest successes...
...Georgia the death of Gene Talmadge led to a bitter "Battle of the Governors" among Herman Talmadge, Ellis Arnall...
Thoughtful Hostess. In San Diego, Herman Vanderheyden, accepting his wife's invitation to a reconciliation party after a ¹ 3-year separation, was greeted by two specially invited guests: deputy sheriffs who clapped him in jail on a non-support complaint...
Georgia's Governor Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge was the butt of a joke last week. Hummon, the story went, called on a spiritualist to contact his pappy, the late Governor "Old Gene" Talmadge. "Pappy," cried Hummon, "how am I doing...