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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: Going Around in Circles | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...morals of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis were secure, after midshipmen had given one performance of Boy Meets Girl. The play, a faintly risque farce, was obviously too much for the superintendent's wife-she swept out at the end of the second act. The superintendent, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway Jr., followed. Next day the rest of the play's three-day run was abruptly canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...refused to settle for "most." "Monsieur le President," he said quickly, "I see I am not supported by my own party. I beg you to adjourn the session." He strode out, drove to the royal palace, formally handed his resignation to Regent Charles. Then he took his wife out for a good dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Drôle de Crise | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Moody, young (46) General Hu Tsung-nan was fond of taking lonely walks. Suddenly he would stop, beat his chest in Tarzan fashion, and howl to the heavens. Ex plained Hu : "Thus do I free myself of internal and external pressures." Friends urged him to take a wife. General Hu, short, sturdy watchdog of China's north west, shook his head. "I have a job to do," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chest-Thumper | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...1920s the Armstrong Educational Tours, which he organized, flourished. He traveled all over the world with them. One year, his travel agency grossed $1,000,000. Extra money went into Browningiana. And every spare hour Armstrong worked over his collection, carefully unpacking, arranging, cataloguing his treasures. Said his wife: "I'm an in-law of Browning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Professor with a Passion | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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