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...fragile magnolia is rangy, fast-talking Helen Douglas Mankin, who beat 17 male opponents. She drove an ambulance in France in World War I, became a successful Atlanta lawyer and five-term veteran in the Georgia legislature...
...ardent follower of progressive Governor Ellis Arnall, Mrs. Mankin was supported by the local Political Action Committee. On election night, she was running behind until the ballot box from Atlanta's Ward 3, Precinct B, was opened. The precinct, where all but ten registered voters are Negroes, was supervised by Negro poll officials, for the first time in Atlanta's history. In the box were 956 votes for Mrs. Mankin, 35 for her opponents. Mrs. Mankin won by 770 votes...
...patter. The Six Hassens, a troupe of Arabian acrobats, gave a very interesting exhibition of pyramid building and whirlwind tumbling. Leon and Company fell below the average of Keith vaudeville and produced nothing at all mystifying. Hyams and McIntyre in "Honeysuckle", Murray and Gerrish in song and dance, and Mankin, a remarkable contortionist, completed the bill...