Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alabamans knew that a coon as big as Kissin' Jim couldn't stay holed up forever. What would happen next? As they waited for him to burst out of the brush, nobody seemed to know whether the voters would boo, cheer, or just gawk as though they had seen a pink giraffe...
...Washington, Big Jim seemed staggered, though not overcome, by the news. While registering at the Statler Hotel, he gazed at a female employee, said, "My, but you're mighty pretty, miss," but did not attempt to kiss her. He blamed the paternity suit on "politics." Next day, he got into his car and vanished...
Editor Townes was asking his bosses as well as his readers. When he took over six months ago, Owners Ed and Jim Scripps had promised Townes free rein. But cautious Publisher Frank W. Power was against crusades; they might hurt business. Townes asked the Scripps Brothers to back him up. When they hedged, he quit. Last week, Townes left town. He will become general manager of the Santa Rosa (Calif.) morning Press-Democrat (circ. 10,396), the afternoon Republican (circ. 2,053) and their radio station...
Author Meets the Critics (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC Television). Jim Farley's Story...
Died. James Lukens McConaughy, 60, 75th Governor of Connecticut (1947-48), longtime college president (Knox College, 1918-25, Wesleyan University, 1925-43); of coronary thrombosis; in Hartford. A liberal educator who became Lieutenant Governor in 1939, lean, austere-looking "Big Jim" once wrote: "With all the temptations, dangers and degradations that beset it, politics is still, I think, the noblest career that a man can choose...