People: Affairs of State

Governor James H. ("Jimmie") Davis of Louisiana, backwoodsy singer-composer (You Are My Sunshine), found half an hour in his weekly gubernatorial schedule to take up where he left off when he turned statesman. Baton Route's radio station WJBO announced a regular Saturday night

Sunshine Barn Dance broadcast, featuring the Governor and his hillbilly band.

Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Tory newspaper tycoon and Lord Privy Seal in Churchill's Cabinet, drew rude sounds from his ex-crony, ex-employe Michael Foot. Said ex-Beaver Boy Foot, who now wears the workingman's collar of London's Laborite Daily Herald: ''Lord Beaverbrook . . . believes in the empire. He's sincere on...

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