Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ATLANTA. NEED A CHECK ON STORY THAT A BURGLAR RANSACKED GEORGE WORD'S HOME, TOOK ONLY A COPY OF FOREVER AMBER, LEFT IT UNDER THE PILLOW OF NEXT-DOOR-NEIGHBOR SALLY CARTER...
Hierarchophobes. Newest trend in the Southern Baptist Conference: the rise of younger leaders. To replace 74-year-old Conference President Pat Morris Neff, ex-Governor of Texas, the Baptists chose Dr. Louie De Votie Newton, 54, since 1929 pastor of Atlanta's Druid Hills Church, biggest Baptist church in Georgia. Dr. Newton, a onetime reporter who never studied for the ministry, preaches in a journalistic style, with emphasis on current events. (Last fortnight he sailed into the resurgent Klan as it staged a tumultuous cross-burning near Atlanta...
Unwieldy Inventories. And there were other troubles. Getting the services to declare items surplus was still a problem. Example: the Army had 25,000 almost-new passenger cars rusting and rotting in an Atlanta depot. When this hoard was publicized, the Army reluctantly gave up only 7,000 of them, and they were the worst...
William Julius Hobbs, 42, was elected president of the Coca-Cola Co., after ten years as an RFC lawyer, only four years with Coca-Cola. Bill Hobbs left RFC's Atlanta office to reorganize Coca-Cola's musty legal department, caught the eye of Coca-Cola's Robert Winship Woodruff. From then on, Bill Hobbs fizzed up to a vice-presidency, moved to New York to head the Coca-Cola Export Co. As president, Bill Hobbs will be second only to Bob Woodruff, who was acting president, and will continue as board chairman...
Required Reading. In Atlanta, a burglar ransacked George Word's home, filched a copy of Forever Amber, left it under the pillow of next-door Neighbor Sally Carter...