Wisecracking Price Stabilizer Mike Di Salle, who resigned to run for Senator from Ohio, last week got a serious-talking successor: ex-Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 44, of Georgia.
For Arnall, the appointment ends five years of political exile, and Arnall is a politician from sole to crown. Son of a well-to-do Newnan, Ga. businessman, young Ellis captured five top campus offices at the University of Georgia, graduated first in his law class ('31). Elected to the state legislature at 26, Arnall rocketed upward as floor leader, assistant attorney general, attorney general. In 1942, the "boy wonder" flashed into national prominence when...
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