Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some such place as the revolving door of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, at one time or another, Suzy Stephenson might well have passed Cristina de Borbón. Suzy is a pertly pretty ex-model from Birmingham, Ala. Cristina, a long-lashed Spanish beauty who has 27 other given names, is a relative of the late Alfonso XIII. Both Suzy and Cristina were involved last week with rich South Americans named Antenor. Suzy was on her way in the door, Cristina...
...WORLEY Scottsboro, Ala...
With a loan from Marshall Field, Williams bought the decrepit old (105 years) monthly Southern Farmer in Montgomery, Ala. for an estimated $100,000. The tabloid-size Farmer, which looks more like a newspaper than a magazine, had long been against the New Deal and for white supremacy, delighted the "red necks" with its waving of the bloody shirt...
...Sinner. "I traveled with a racking headache and a morphine bottle," Mary Chesnut wrote of her trip from Charleston to the secession conference in Montgomery, Ala. "I felt a nervous dread and horror of this break with so great a power as the United States, but I was ready and willing." In Montgomery she went to supper with Governor Moore ("The old sinner has been making himself ridiculous with that little actress Maggie Mitchell"). She saw a Negro woman sold into slavery: "My very soul sickened." She said to a Northern-born woman: "If you can stand that, no other...
...trial was probably the biggest prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan since reconstruction days. In Birmingham, Ala., 18 men had been indicted for the brutal wave of floggings, cross-burnings and intimidation that swept Alabama's hill country last summer...