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...jaunty angle while Center Director Wernher von Braun clapped on his own head a Texas-style hat the President had given him on a recent visit to the L.B.J. ranch. At a cafeteria-style luncheon, she picked up the check for 59 of her visiting Alabama "kissin' cousins." She could hardly keep them straight, and small wonder. After all, her Alabama grandmother on her father's side had been married four times and had 13 children. She asked "Uncle John" Patillo, of Billingsley, if he would "take me walking through the pine trees like when...
Maintaining both spirit and an uncanny resemblance to Howdy Doody throughout the play, Thomas Babe was quite charming as Helene's kissin' cousin, who is decidedly unhappy about the whole idea of her marriage and jumps excitedly at every opportunity to call...
...already pledged support to Cousin Gillis. Meanwhile, Mrs. Blanche Long -Earl's widow and Russell's aunt by marriage-says that she will manage the campaign of a third candidate, not related, Louisiana's Public Service Commissioner John McKeithen. Come primary time next December, the kissin' cousins are apt to be all puckered...
Triple-Threat Spender. After 250-lb. Kissin' Jim returned for a second term in 1955, he made his first regime seem almost austere. During his final year in office, the food-and-drink expenses for parties aboard the two yachts came to $54,260. A sort of triple-threat spender-land, sea and air-Folsom accumulated a gubernatorial squadron of seven airplanes. Sometimes when he was putting on a really big bash, like taking friends to an out-of-state football game, he found his air force inadequate, commandeered Air National Guard planes and pilots. In 1958 he treated...
Upon taking over from Folsom in January 1959, Patterson proclaimed economy. But before long he was spending state funds almost as uninhibitedly as Kissin' Jim. Not content with a press secretary. he also hired a radio-TV secretary and a personal photographer. Though he got rid of five planes, he later bought four others. Shortly before his term expired, he used $17,500 of his emergency funds to pay legal expenses for his brother Maurice, whom he had appointed state finance director. Maurice was caught up in an investigation involving the alleged misuse of Alabama funds...