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George, who had been a lawyer in Okolona, Miss., landed in Washington in 1929, to handle the real-estate affairs of a Chicago banking firm. One day he laughingly suggested a personal publicity gag to Mississippi's amiable Senator Pat Harrison: "Why not mention my name where it will be heard, as a dark-horse candidate for a District of Columbia commissionership?" Pat did. Somewhat to his horror, the dark horse was chosen...
...April 1945 he flew from California to Washington. Franklin Roosevelt had died. George walked into the presence of a stricken Harry Truman, bowed and said solemnly: "Mr. President." Since that moment, the lawyer of Okolona has sat at Harry Truman's right hand...
...tingling experiences imaginable, on all possible battlefronts (strafing Nazi tanks in North Africa, being rescued by the French underground after a crash landing in occupied Europe, shooting it out with Jap Zeros over the South Pacific). When red-haired young Holdeman spoke at war-bond rallies in Booneville, Tupelo, Okolona and a dozen other towns, women sobbed openly and strong men rose en masse to subscribe the limit. He was the best war-bond salesman that ever hit the state...
HERBERT L. WHITE Okolona, Miss...
...Okolona, Miss., Negro David Lawrence,* on trial charged with murdering Ligon Grisby. got worried when the jury stayed out an hour, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to 7½ yr. before the jury returned with a verdict of not guilty, which the judge ignored...