Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters begin "You're the kind of guy I want to work for," and are from experienced weavers, loom-fixers, fashion designers, buyers, superintendents, salesmen, workers from nearby mills, from all over New England, and from Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, Delaware, New York, California, Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Others are from novices who want to enroll in Axelrod's school in textile technique...
Thereupon the daily pulled up stakes and headed south, in order to examine Alabama's colleges in a more temperate climate...
This is the story of an Alabama town named Pineboro, a place of "tasseled pink-shaded livingroom lamps and bare kitchen bulbs...
Disillusion. The Patchwork Time is Robert Gibbons' second novel. (First was Bright Is the Morning.) Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1915, he began to write at 18, served during the war aboard an LST in the Pacific. His work is widely praised by such Southerners as Robert Penn Warren, Erskine Caldwell and Eudora Welty, seems typical of a growing school of graceless disillusionment in fiction, too accomplished not to be taken seriously, and too narrow not to be viewed with alarm by readers who respect its talents and potential contribution...
...Orleans' Sugar Bowl, Texas put on an aerial circus that fooled Alabama, 27 to 7. Afterwards, the owners of two pro football teams (Chicago Bears and Baltimore Colts) were on hand to bid for Quarterback Bobby Layne, whose passes ruined Alabama...