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Just eight days after Louisiana sent Huey Long's snub-faced son Russell to the U.S. Senate, Georgia voters triumphantly revived a political dynasty of their own. Trooping to the polls under a sizzling sun, they elected tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge, 35, to fill the last two years of tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Ol' Gene's term as governor. It was like old times again...
Many Georgians were less blasphemous and less easily resigned. Said one discouraged voter: "Pore ol' Georgia-first Sherman, then Herman...
...since Franklin Roosevelt's had moved the people-and the press-to such maudlin excess. Between the pumped-up sentimentality of the public mind and the morticianly manners of the public prints, it was impossible to decide which influenced the other more. The genuine tributes to flamboyant George Herman Ruth were drowned in a messy fog of tear-jerking pictures and prose...
...everything that was robust about the man. Last week, back in the hospital again at 53, the Babe was deluged with letters wishing him well; newspapers were swamped with calls asking about his condition, ballpark crowds stood in silent prayer for his recovery. This week death came to George Herman Ruth...
Died. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, 53, baseball's home-run king; of cancer; in Manhattan (see SPORT...