"A large group of Mobilians visited Washington this past week to take part in the annual American Red Cross convention. The Mobilians were guests of Cong. Frank Boykin at a luncheon in the Capitol Building and included (left to right), Albert...
"'Everything's Made for Love' - Frank Boykin, Alabama's gallant representative from the First Congressional District, welcomes Miss Yolande Betbeze, a fellow Mobilian and Miss America for 1951. Miss Betbeze was guest of honor at a chicken dinner...
"A gift for Sam Rayburn -- Washington, D.C. -- As a 'reward for putting up with us for all these years' appreciative Democrats present Minority Leader Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.) with a new Fleetwood Cadillac sedan in ceremony on Capitol Hill today (Jan....
The group had gathered for a dinner party given for Congressman Sam Hobbs and his wife. Frank and Ocllo Boykin gave each of the ladies a nylon nightgown produced by Vanity Fair Mills in Monroeville, Alabama.
"The House of Representatives was the setting yesterday for the baptism of Robert Joseph Coar, Jr., whose father is in charge of the capitol's radio room. In the baptism ceremony, the four-months-old infant was consecrated to 'God and his country.'...
In the letter Pugh discusses his recent illness and the treatments he took to recover ("My suffering has been very great from a disease I never heard of before called Shingles - a disease of the blood and skin never fatal but tormenting"). He then...