MISSISSIPPI: Bilbo v. Bilbo

"Is it correct to say," a sturdy, vivacious, bobbed-haired matron in West Jackson, Miss, was asked last week, "that you and the Senator are living separately but are not divorced?"

"That may be correct," replied Mrs. Linda Gaddy Bilbo, 56. "He is just gone and does not come home."

After 30 years of marriage Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo left his second wife in 1933. Last summer, after suing her husband for separate maintenance, Mrs. Bilbo obtained a relief job. Last week she made news by entering her first political campaign.

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