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...publicity like a drunk for a bottle. But last week he just slipped a posy into his buttonhole, picked up Jamelle (who quit her job in the Highway Department), and took off from the Governor's Mansion. Forty miles north, Jim and Jamelle got married in the Rockford Baptist Church. Twittered the brunette, 21-year-old bride: "I feel like I'm going around in circles." Gruffed the groom: "She's not the wife of the governor-she's the wife of Jim Folsom...
Married. James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 39, governor of Alabama; and Jamelle Moore, 21, secretary in the State Highway Department; in Rockford, Ala. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Sharp-tongued Martha Taft, the Senator's wife, barged into Rockford, Ill. last week and delivered herself of some comments on Harry Truman's new White House balcony (now complete except for final painting). If he sat on it every night all summer, and every warm night in May, she told a group of Republican women, it would cost the taxpayers $150 a night. "I should think he wouldn't want to sit on it," she added, "especially since it faces South. But perhaps he will install a swing and swing from right to left, and that...
Died. Martha Hillard MacLeish, 91, retired educator, welfare-work leader, mother of Poet Archibald MacLeish, head of Rockford (Ill.) College (1884-88) when women's colleges were still a novelty; in Glencoe...
...Student Domestic Affairs Commission, under the direction of Ralph Dungan of St. Joseph's College, Pennsylvania, will establish its national offices along with those of the Association at Madison. NSA President is William Welsh of Berea College, Kentucky; while Janice Tremper of Rockford, Illinois, acts as secretary, and Leland Jones of Buffalo as treasure. The domestic and international commission chairman serve as NSA vice-presidents...