With preliminary grunts, tentative shouts and nervous harumphs, the nation's politicos shook off the winter's torpor. Most active were those in the South, where the Democratic primaries are the only elections worth winning. But everywhere last week, there were twitchings in the body politic:
ΒΆ In Alabama, eleven candidates had declared for Big Jim Folsom's job (Alabama governors may not succeed themselves). Most conspicuous were Judge Elbert Boozer, who moves about with a $20,000 trailer built as a replica of the state capitol, complete with desks, radio telephones and a copper dome...
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