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When Governor Dan McCarty died (TIME, Oct. 12), he left Florida a heritage of reform and an heir who was no reformer: State Senate President Charley E. (for Eugene) Johns, 49, an unleavened Florida cracker from the upstate piney woods. A onetime railroad conductor, Johns had collected more than $70,000 from selling insurance to state agencies while presiding officer of the state senate. He had voted for legalized slot machines, against school construction and against unmasking the Ku Klux Klan...
...with him at the Grove, a 129-year-old Tallahassee house built by his wife's great-grandfather, Richard Keith Call, governor of Florida Territory during most of the Second Seminole War (1835-42). A curly-haired six-footer, Collins looked good on TV and campaigned strenuously against Charley Johns's "muster of the vultures...
...Garden Ex-Marine Charley Norkus did his muscle-bound best to show Hurricane some fun. Tommy was easy to hit. and Norkus jolted him just often enough. By the time he had absorbed a deep gash over each eye, the Hurricane was really swirling, and apparently happy. Flailing fists from every direction, Tommy swarmed all over the slow-moving Norkus. By the fifth round he had the ex-marine hanging helpless on the ropes. Hurricane could not blow his man down, but the boxing commission had obviously taught him manners. He politely stepped back and let the referee stop...
...Broadway will be a hit. He started out as an odds-on favorite when he directed one of his first shows, Broadway, in 1926. Through the years he added such winners as Three Men on a Horse, Boy Meets Girl, Brother Rat, Room Service, Pal Joey, Where's Charley, Call Me Madam, Wonderful Town, Me and Juliet...
...first midfield then became Karl Bjork, Tod Goodwin, and Fred Horween. At the end of the week these three were still together, but Bjork with novocaine in a sprained ankle, Goodwin with a charley horse, and Horween with a weak ankle. The defense of Tom Crump, Paul Jones, and John Hartwell played every minute of the last three games without a substitute...