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Died. Clement Wood, 62, Alabama-born jack-of-all-letters; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Schenectady, N.Y. Wood turned out novels, verse, anthologies, biographies, dozens of miscellaneous volumes. Most durable products: the lyrics of The Glory Road, Short'nin' Bread...
...young man, Alabama-born Ben Lilly inherited his uncle's Louisiana farm but left his livestock to "root-hog or die" while he spent long weeks in the woods, hunting bear. As a husband he was no more successful than as a farmer. One day when his wife said, "Ben, you like to shoot so well, why don't you get your gun and shoot that chicken hawk?" he left the house and did not come back for more than a year. "That hawk kept flying," he explained...
...wrote a novel of contemporary Mississippi, In My Father's House, and The Gauntlet (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945), which sold 800,000 copies. In the midst of writing Tomorrow We Reap, which carries the Dabney clan beyond 1893, he bogged down, doubted that he could finish the book. Alabama-born James Childers (Laurel and Straw), an Air Force colonel in World War II and a Dabney fan, volunteered to help him. The result is unspectacular, although followers of the Dabneys will want to read it to find out what happened to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren...
Tall, gimlet-eyed, Alabama-born J.Frank Norris, 69, rejoices in his ecclesiastical reputation as the "stormy petrel of the Southwest," and sees to it that the description keeps up-to-date. In his church study at Fort Worth in 1926, the Rev. Mr. Norris killed an unarmed political enemy by shooting him four times in the belly and was acquitted on grounds of self-defense...
Last fortnight one of the South's richest private universities (endowment: $30 million) picked a new head man. As fourth chancellor in 71 years, Tennessee's Vanderbilt University chose mild-looking, shy Harvie Branscomb, 51, dean of Duke University's divinity school. Alabama-born Dr. (of Philosophy) Branscomb, onetime Rhodes Scholar, was a World War I friend of Vanderbilt's outgoing chancellor Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, now president of the Carnegie Foundation. They served together in Belgium on the Hoover relief commission. At Duke University, he has been an outstanding leader in the intellectual and moral progress...