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Into Alabama's political ring once again went the wool hat of James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 53, a favorite to win the Democratic gubernatorial primary-and with it an unprecedented third term in a state where the Governor cannot succeed himself. After idling away his latest interregnum selling insurance in the hinterlands, 6-ft. 8-in. Folsom faced only one real stumbling block: a redneck notion that he is soft on segregation because he once sipped Scotch with Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in the executive mansion...
...K.K.K. In 1958 Patterson started out way back in the pack in the race among the Democrats for the Governor's mansion. He gained ground fast. With no program of his own to speak of, Patterson made himself the chief critic of the clownish reign of James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, the outgoing Governor. Using his attorney general's stationery, Patterson sent out a letter to the Ku Klux Klan mailing list, which declared: "A mutual friend, Mr. R. N. Shelton, of ours, in Tuscaloosa, has suggested that I ask for your support." When it turned out that...
...bond between Poteet and Lolita. the nymphet of the bestselling novel by Vladimir Nabokov (TIME, Sept. 1), seems even more vague than the "kissin' cousin" kinship Poteet claims for Steve, who dutifully has made her his ward. Poteet plays polo and coaches basketball, is always chaperoned when she travels with Steve. Square-jawed Steve gives his ward only the most brotherly kisses, has even punished her with a sound paddling. In contrast, Lolita confines her athletics to the bedroom, romps from motel to motel across the nation with her stepfather Humbert Humbert...
Pregnant and ailing with morning sickness, Jamelle Folsom, wife of Alabama's mountainous (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, checked into a Montgomery hospital for treatment. Lumbering soon after her was Kissin' Jim himself, who sagged into a bed and summoned an old friend, Montgomery Advertiser Editor Grover Hall, for a hot scoop. The gubernatorial secret: although father of five by Jamelle (plus two by his late first wife, Sarah), sympathetic Big Jim gets morning sickness every time the lady of the house does. "Damn right," groaned he. Even liquor wouldn...
...amiable bear of a man on the ground, Alabama's leviathan-like (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom while airborne seemed more like a barefoot boy with cheek. When he goes sailing off into the wild blue in his Cessna 180, Big Jim disclosed, he travels with feet au naturel. Reason: in his size 16 shoes, he cannot use the rudder pedals without stomping on the brakes as well. More interesting was another Deep South tidbit: although unlicensed, Student Pilot Folsom has been soloing on the sly-a violation of CAA rules...