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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alabama: The runoff primary for governor was a freakish contest. Outsize (6 ft. 8 in.) Jim Folsom, ex-G.I. endorsed by the C.I.O., mopped up professional politician L. Handy Ellis with the added help of sudsy showmanship (TIME, May 20) and a five-piece band. Big Jim, who swore he kissed 50,000 women in the campaign, polled heavily in back-country areas, and in these he had discreetly soft-pedaled his P.A.C. support...
...country place on the plushy north shore of Long Island.* The main diggings (in old Woodbury): a Georgian brick pile with a nice third floor for servants, a five-car garage, landscaped grounds. Neighbors: Wall Streeter Henry Rogers Winthrop and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Landlady: Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, widow of the ex-Secretary of the Treasury...
...Henry L Mencken, 65, lord high lambaster of the '20s, had a visit from Columnist Ward Morehouse and impersonated his old self. Nostalgic excerpts from the interview: "People are in a state of imbecility. The country is a wreck. . . . The United Nations has no more chance than the Ku Klux Klan would have in the Vatican...
...Morning worship service. The Memorial Church Special service for returning veterans and new students, conducted by Dean Willard L. Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers. Each Sunday thereafter throughout the college year...
...political group's activity, under the direction of Charles Sellers '47 will be affiliated with no party, and will consist of pamphlet distribution, canvassing, and officework. HLU President John C. L. Hulley '44 also said that work for the primaries, slated for June 19th, will be carried on by men here between terms...