Word: lumpkin
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...overturned by the federal courts, the district was redrawn to include more of Atlanta and less of farm counties, and in 1962 along came Weltner to run against Davis. He had imposing Southern credentials. One of his great-grandfathers was Georgia's first chief justice, Joseph Henry Lumpkin. Another great-grandfather was Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, a Confederate general who was killed at Fredericksburg. His father is a former chancellor of Georgia's university system and a onetime president of Oglethorpe University. Weltner himself attended Oglethorpe and got a law degree at Columbia University before settling down...
Richard Lowenthal, who plays Tony Lumpkin, Mrs. Hardcastle's ne'er-do-well son by a previous marriage, has a riot of a face, and the stupidest-sounding bluff giggle I've ever heard; but he screams his lines, some of them as crucial to the plot as any lines can be to such a plot, and they are lost. Tony's fond mother is not a very interesting or amusing person, so anything Janet Leslie gets out of the part--and she gets quite a bit--is a testament to her skill...
...PICKETT LUMPKIN...