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...know, one of these days, ole Marvin Griffin is going to learn his lesson and get some sense. If he doesn't, they're going to bury him head down, and when that trumpet sounds, he's going to find himself going further the wrong way. I want every person who prays to call Marvin Griffin's name to God, and I want you to say, 'Lord, I'm talking about the Marvin Griffin who is governor of Georgia,' so there won't be any mistake...
Tennessee's slow-starting Volunteers looked like anything but the nation's top team they were cracked up to be. By the end of the first quarter last week they were losing to Mississippi 7-0, and that seemed only the beginning. Time after time, Ole Miss passes caught the Volunteer secondary flatfooted; Tennessee fumbles stopped every drive before it was well started. But Tennessee Quarterback Johnny Majors was magnificently unflustered. While his team got untracked, Johnny killed time with old-fashioned football: he punted and prayed for the breaks...
...message from Athletic Director General Bob Neyland, scouting in the pressbox. corrected the team's mistakes. Now the Volunteers began to get the jump, and they forced Mississippi's first big mistake: an intercepted Mississippi pass led to a quick touchdown. Then, with Majors faking Ole Miss defenders off balance and hitting his receivers with passes that practically had handles, Tennessee went in front to stay, 21-7. After that, a well-drilled second team smothered the Mississippi attack while scoring once more on their own. Final score: Tennessee 27, Mississippi...
Nashville's bid, more impressive than Cincinnati's, rests on the corn-fed program Grand Ole Opry, an NBC radio show for the past 30 years, and now an ABC-TV show too. The radio show has not missed a Saturday night broadcast since 1925, has a live audience of about 5,000 every week, has drawn over the years 5,000,000 visitors to Nashville to see Grand Ole Opry...
...spent three years at "Ole Miss," then transferred to Vanderbilt, where his father felt he could get better legal training, and after one semester there switched to the University of Alabama. While still a senior at Alabama, he passed his bar exams ("I made the highest grade") and promptly dropped out of school to run for the Mississippi state legislature. With his father's backing, 24-year-old Jim Eastland had no trouble in getting elected, and for four years he was one of then Governor Theodore Bilbo's leading supporters in the house of representatives...