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...MAYOR) SEABORN CRAVEY Baytown, Texas...
Last week's criticism of the Fund was very different in origin from right-wing attacks on it that have mounted in fury during recent months. Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. and Columnist David Lawrence accused the Fund of soft-pedaling Communist subversion. American Legion National Commander Seaborn Collins said the Fund "is threatening and may succeed in crippling the national security...
...American Legion last week elected a new national commander: Seaborn P. Collins Jr., 42, a wartime transport pilot who runs a realty business in Las Cruces, N. Mex. He succeeded Arthur J. Connell of Middletown, Conn., who led the Legion's "Back-to-God" movement and who, Legionnaires said, may be the last national commander dating from World War I. The not-so-new veterans of World War II are taking over the Legion. At last week's convention they were determined to fight off criticism that veterans' benefits had gone...
...Parish and mending political fences-set boldly out to get the governorship again. He talked an oil millionaire named William C. Feazel into backing him. (After election he sent Feazel to the Senate to fill the late Senator John Overton's unexpired term, made Feazel's attorney, Seaborn L. Digby, chairman of the Conservation Commission, which decides how much oil may be pumped from wells...
Colonel Effingham's Raid (20th Century-Fox), from the novel by Berry Fleming, tells the story of W. Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a garrulous, fabulous old Southern colonel who descends on a small city in Georgia and, before he has finished, practically turns the place upside down. The picture depends mostly upon the colonel's warlike antics and vocabulary, and upon some mild byplay involving William Eythe and Joan Bennett as newspaper reporters. The local color possibilities were enormous, but the producer and director of this picture evidently didn't think them worth the trouble. Most...