Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Walter Henry Rich, 67, president of Atlanta's easy-credit Rich's Inc., busiest department store in the South (last year's sales: $42,000,000); of a heart attack; in Atlanta. Publicity-minded Merchant Rich attracted attention in the depression by proposing that Atlanta's teachers be paid in scrip (to be honored at his store, later redeemed by the city), sold $645,000 worth of goods, gained Atlanta's gratitude...
...Dartmouth and Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina, ex-Assistant City Solicitor Sadie T. Alexander of Philadelphia, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst of New York, Lawyer Francis P. Matthews of Nebraska, A.V.C.'s Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Methodist Social Worker Mrs. M. E. Tilly of Atlanta, Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn of Long Island, the Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and Channing H. Tobias, director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund...
Scarlett O'Hara's creator, Atlantan Margaret Mitchell, made a gracious Old Confederate response to a compliment. British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's wife, Nell, had said something nice about Gone With the Wind on a visit to Atlanta last summer; but Author Mitchell was away at the time. So now, at length, she made the reciprocal gesture. To Mrs. Rank she sent a note of thanks, and enclosed a souvenir $5 Confederate bill...
...Tonight. In Atlanta, after three holdup men robbed George Grant of $60, he ran home and got his shotgun, came back firing, got robbed of that...
Back in the 1920s, Johnny Suggs was a better-than-average southpaw pitcher for the Atlanta Crackers. One day he met the boss's daughter, married her and quit pitching to run the concessions at the ball park. The night the ball park burned down, Johnny Suggs became a father. He and his new family moved 15 miles to Lithia Springs, Ga.; there Johnny took over a combined golf course and-picnic grounds. At three, his roly-poly daughter, Louise, was traipsing around the course after him, swinging at golf balls with a baseball grip...