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Mississippi's Wirt Yerger Jr., 32, who works in his father's Jackson insurance agency, is chairman in a state where homeborn Republicans were lately regarded as freaks. Yerger's chief rival for Mississippi Republican supremacy was the late Perry Howard, a Negro, who was national committeeman for 36 years, lived most of that time in Washington, and racked up a record of almost absolute in effectiveness. Yerger has organized local leaders in nearly half of the state's 82 counties, has small sympathy for those party members who are along just for the ride. Says...
...Sharp direction makes a pleasant political comedy out of Novelist Wirt Williams' variation on the American dream; A Louisiana doxy marries a gubernatorial candidate, winds up first lady of the state...
...competent script and sharp direction make a pleasant political comedy out of Novelist Wirt Williams' variation on the American dream: a Louisiana doxy marries a gubernatorial candidate she meets on the job, and winds up first lady of the state...
...cute idea-maybe too cute. But the screenplay, worked up by Arthur Sheek-man and William Driskill from a novel (Ada Dallas) by Wirt Williams, develops it into a pleasant political comedy, and Daniel (Butterfield 8) Mann directs the show with tact and skill. He makes the most of Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend...
...blonde, Marilyn does not have the strength for a big game, relies instead on steady retrieving to force her opponent into errors. Under the tutelage of Coach Tommy Bartlett, she has learned to keep her returns deep to prevent men from charging the net. Says Teammate Wirt Gammon Jr.: "Marilyn may not be the best in the world at putting the ball away, but she just keeps hitting it back, hitting it back...