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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas' Ma Ferguson is probably Maddox's closest competitor. In two years in office (1925-27), she gave more than 3,000 prisoners their freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: Grand Opening | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

MARSHALL "MA" NEWELL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Club Hall of Fame Bars Pigskin Hero Charlie Brickley | 11/11/1967 | See Source »

...century since a shy blonde out of Jamestown, N. Dak., named Peggy Lee (real name: Norma Egstrom) sang that lament with Benny Goodman's band. She did right-and made plenty money. The intervening years have brought her smash-hit records (Lover, Fever), success as a songwriter (Mañana, It's a Good Day), an Academy Award nomination as an actress (Pete Kelly's Blues), ardent fans (ranging from Duke Ellington to Rudolf Nureyev), and top nightclub engagements at $25,000 a week. They have also brought her serious illness and four divorces. But last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Music: Parsimonious Peggy | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...BATTLE OF ALGIERS. A cinéma-vérité-style recounting of the Algerian guerrilla war against the French during the '50s, in which Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo has used not one frame of actual documentary film footage, yet manages to make the movie explosively real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 27, 1967 | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

Died. Jane Darwell, 86, veteran actress in more than 300 Hollywood films, a strong-featured Missourian who over the years played mother (to Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart), grandmother (to Shirley Temple, Fabian) and whatever other home-and-hearth character the plot demanded, most notably Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, which won her a 1940 Oscar, and the Bird Woman in Mary Pop pins; of a heart attack; in Woodland Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 25, 1967 | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

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