Word: lurleen
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...Noting that Lurleen Wallace has won the Governor's chair in Alabama, we can only admit that Alabamians have demonstrated true de-mock-racy in action. JAMES S. DISTELHORST '69 RICHARD C. KOMSON '69 Georgetown University Washington...
Died. Dan Moody, 72, Governor of Texas from 1927 to 1931 who at 33, as a reform-minded state attorney general, defeated Incumbent Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, a housewife like Lurleen Wallace merely fronting for her husband, impeached Governor James Ferguson, after which Moody served two terms cleaning up the mess in the Statehouse and starting construction of Texas' top-rated highway system, then retired to a highly successful law practice; of heart disease; in Austin...
...better half from rally to rally. Day after day, week after week, she smiled shyly as George solemnly introduced her as "the next Governor of Alabama," then gamely repeated her one memorized speech (average running time: one minute). After that, George, who for campaign purposes was billed as Lurleen's $1-a-year chief-adviser-to-be after November, pranced to the lectern and ranted on and on about his achievements as Governor since...
Anti-Wallace Alabamians started wearing buttons proclaiming I'M TOO OLD FOR A GOVERNESS, but no one was really fooled. Nor did Wallace make any pretense that Lurleen would govern if elected. "My record is running, not my wife," he said ungallantly. VOTE FOR LURLEEN AND LET GEORGE DO IT, urged the billboards. Bumper stickers on cars simply said VOTE WALLACE...
...Grow with Flowers." George figured that Alabamians would probably split their votes among the nine other Democratic contestants, giving Lurleen at best a plurality, thus forcing her into a runoff with the second-place candidate. He assumed that her opponent would be State Attorney General Richmond Flowers, 47, who alone among the candidates had made a vigorous bid for the state's swelling Negro vote. "I do not believe that the Negro is inferior," Flowers told eager Negro audiences. "I am a man of the law and, like it or not, I am going to follow the law. Every...