Mr. Crump can go and catch hisself some air.*
Ed Crump, the 73-year-old monarch of Memphis, once boasted: "I've never been beaten in any election I ever took part in, even when it was running for captain of the baseball team in school." Since 1928, when his candidate for governor lost out in the primary, Ed Crump had always made good on his boast. Last week, he was trying to swallow it.
Tennessee voters, casting the biggest primary vote in the state's history, gave the last of the big city bosses a terrific pasting....
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