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...year Mississippi hegemony, radiant Nancy Anne Fleming, 18, of minuscule (pop. 2,346) Montague, Mich, found herself Miss America of 1961. While she was sewing up the title with victories in the talent (dressmaking) and bathing-suit (35-22-35) preliminaries at Atlantic City, her Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams, was campaigning in New Jersey for Jack Kennedy. Although he missed her crowning, "Soapy" slipped into town in time for the subsequent Coronation Ball and a dance with his comely constituent, who magnanimously labeled it "my second biggest thrill of the night...
HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE: Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams of Michigan...
After a record twelve years as Governor-six two-year terms- Michigan's green-bow-tied G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams had enough, and felt that voters might feel the same way. Last week Michigan's voters, in primary elections, chose a Republican and Democratic' candidate for Soapy's well-warmed chair...
Michigan's chief Kennedy booster, Governor G. Mennen Williams, alerted Jack to discontent among Negro leaders. Kennedy sent his family Convair to Detroit, picked up ten prominent Negroes, airlifted them to a conference at Kennedy's Georgetown home in Washington. It was, as one of the Negroes reported later, a "real red-carpet" welcome. "We had brunch on the patio, and there was a subtle punch beforehand-I thought there was gin in there, but I heard it was cognac. There was chicken and some fancy kind of eggs, and there were whites and Negroes waiting...
...Free Press touched off an official reinvestigation of the Pecho case, and a reconstruction of Mrs. Pecho's death proved that she could easily have pulled the trigger herself. In the light of this and other compelling evidence of Pecho's innocence, Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams granted...