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Steeped & Basted. Richard Brevard Russell stands bald head and broad shoulders above the course he represents, although he was steeped in Southern traditions and basted on both sides. His great-great-grandfather, John Russell, was a South Carolina plantation owner who held 100 slaves. General Sherman, on his way through Georgia, burned the cotton mills and freed the slaves of Grandfather William John Russell. Richard Brevard Russell Sr., Dick's father, was a Georgia lawyer and judge who served as the state's chief justice for 15 years before he died...
...nickelodeon. In 1915 he formed the Fox Film Corp., pyramided it (on paper) by 1929 into a $300 million empire, amassed a personal fortune of $35 million. But the cost of equipping 1,100 Fox theaters for talking pictures proved his undoing. The empire crumbled during the Depression, and bald, sad-eyed Fox was driven out by a coalition of creditors. He went into bankruptcy in 1936, five years later was sentenced to a year and a day and fined $3,000 for conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with his bankruptcy. Afterwards, he lived quietly in Woodmere, L.I., where...
...consciousness, Morton gave them Post-hypnotic suggestions. Soon, the main show was in the audience. One man kept shouting "shut up" whenever Morton said the words "ladies and gentlemen," and a startled young lady found herself shrieking "cocka-doodle-do." Another young lady kept looking around dazedly for the bald head that she had been told to kiss, while the last two subjects acted on Morton's suggestion that they lead the audience in the Star Spangled Banner to close the program...
...Union: "It will be a blow to the cause of liberty around the world to submerge the sovereignty of the U.S. with other nations." On his first day, Russell spoke to 7,500 in Gainesville, Ocala, Leesburg and Orlando, finished with a bright pink case of sunburn on his bald head. He planned 30 speeches in ten days...
...your able editors the sum of $1 that the next President of the U.S. will be bald-headed...