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Seabright has also stood for lack of fuss. It built no permanent stands, kept its roomy, shingled clubhouse modest. Since Rumson is short of hotels for transients, touring amateurs such as Big Bill Tilden, Little Bill Johnston, Vincent Richards, Molla Mallory, Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs were customarily put up in the sprawling seashore-gothic palaces of the members. Seabright was quiet, too. If a visitor happened to ask for a highball, he was gently reminded that the club has never served liquor. Nor, for 73 years, did the club allow Sunday-morning tennis, though that rule was repealed this...
This left the voters of South Carolina only lesser issues to decide upon. Johnston, said Thurmond, was immoral, "because he once entertained Sally Rand in the governor's mansion." Thurmond, Johnston retorted, had once stood on his head for a photographer...
...election day, the voters preferred Johnston, 178,000 to 154,000, a choice which National Chairman Bill Boyle applauded as, from his viewpoint, the lesser of two evils: Thurmond, as Dixiecrat candidate for President, had drawn 39 electoral votes from Harry Truman...
...discover that Florida's handsome Governor Fuller Warren had been elected to office on a campaign fund of no less than $462,000-$154,000 of it provided (in spite of a law forbidding political contributions by racetrack operators) by a dog-track owner named William H. Johnston...
...subpoena him. But Harry just couldn't be found; he sent word that he remembered what happened to Kansas City Gangster Charles Binaggio, who was killed after talking to the authorities. Neither could the other partners in the S & G be found, nor Dog Track Magnate William H. Johnston, the man who gave the governor the 150 Gs. Like all good things, crime investigation could be carried a little...