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Throughout the South, Democratic organizations that have grown fat and feckless on one-party power are being rattled by Republican challenge. The G.O.P. threat to Georgia's statehouse is proving so formidable that Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge, regarded as unbeatable in his state, announced last week that he would run for another term as Governor "if the people of Georgia desire...
Judging from the volume of phone calls and telegrams urging him on, the people did indeed desire Herman for Governor. On the other hand, a small, influential group representing banks, textile manufacturers and cotton interests strongly urged the former Governor (1948-55) to stay in Washington-or face a financial boycott of his campaign...
...Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, a rich, attractive campaigner who was elected in 1964 while Barry Goldwater was carrying the state, led Vandiver by nearly 2 to 1. An old foe of the Talmadges', former Governor Ellis Arnall, may well wind up with the Democratic nomination-meaning humiliation for Herman no matter who wins in November...
...only a little Hebe who was brought up in the gutters of Brooklyn," Millionaire Joseph Herman Hirshhorn, 66, likes to say in moments of wry self-depreciation. But every inch that the 5-ft. 4-in. dynamo lacks in physical stature, he has more than made up for in wealth: his fortune, based on Canadian uranium, has grown to upwards of $100 million. Nor is there any gainsaying his voracious appetite for art. "I buy art almost every day," he says. "If I can't decide which of an artist's work, I buy them...
...resolve the question of the four-bar coincidence, David's publishers sued Herman for copyright infringement, asking for all of Herman's "gains, profits and advantages," as well as damages. Dolly's Herman was indignant. "I was stunned," he says, "when this man claimed that a few notes in my song were similar to his song." Sunflower's David persisted. The case never got to court. As often happens in such situations, the litigants tried to iron things out without publicity. Nevertheless, reported Variety last week, in spite of flat denials and "no comments" from...