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...equivalent of 100 Fulton voters. By winning pluralities (not necessarily majorities) in a lot of small rural counties, a politician could win the Democratic nomination for Governor with a minority of the statewide popular vote. The elder Talmadge did that in 1946 with 43% of the popular vote, and Marvin Griffin did it in 1954 with only...
Steve Botein occasionally founders on the dialect, but he is generally effective as Preacher Haggler. In the church scene, he is overpowering as, sweating profusely, he shouts down the devil. Arthur Roberts competently plays Marvin Hudgens, who lusts after Barbara Allen, and Sarah Leary and Rosalind Miller are two of the sexiest, most fetching little witches you could ever hope...
...MARVIN ZIM Chicago...
Among the likely Democratic candidates: U.S. Representative Dale Alford, an ophthalmologist who became a career segregationist; ex-Governor (1949-53) Sid McMath, a moderate who prides himself on his progressive attitudes on most issues; Attorney General J. Frank Holt, also a moderate; former State Senator Marvin Melton, onetime president of the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce; Kenneth Coffelt, an out-and-out segregationist who has promised to "expose the scandals in the Faubus Administration." Even Arkansas' moribund Republican Party hopes to present a serious candidate, and G.O.P. National Committeeman Winthrop Rockefeller, younger brother of New York's Nelson Rockefeller...
...Scarcely had the new year begun when two Los Angeles dailies -Hearst's Examiner and Norman Chandler's Mirror (TIME, Jan. 12)-died, leaving America's third largest city with only one morning paper and one in the afternoon. Last week a group headed by Marvin J. McConnell, who puts out a western twice-monthly trade paper (Small Busi ness News), announced plans to start an independent, five-day-a-week afternoon tabloid called the Post to challenge Hearst's consolidated Herald-Examiner...