Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also holding luncheons are the Harvard Clubs of Akron, Baltimore, Buffalo, and Syracuse, all on Monday, Dec. 29. The Atlanta, Chicago, and Tulsa Clubs will play host to the students...
Hustling to get away for the weekend, the honey-blonde pressagent in Atlanta hastily dashed off a few corrections on the press release for her biggest client-the new, $3,000,000 Cabana Motor Hotel scheduled to open last week. For a new punch line at the end of the story, Lois LaRoche scribbled: "What a spot for an adventurous weekend!" Then she sent the copy off to a mimeographing and mailing service. Not until she was back from her trip did she see the finished copy that had gone out to some 400 newspapers and magazines, and then...
What went into cheery glasses all over the country last week was a good deal less lethal than some of the swizzle sticks used to stir it. So warned the U.S. Public Health Service, which acted after a recent party at Sylvan Hills High School in suburban Atlanta. As favors, the students received swizzle sticks topped by a little head fashioned like a Haitian voodoo figure. Within an hour, about 50 of the partygoers broke out in a rash, much like ivy poisoning. It could have been worse, reported the U.S. Occupational Health laboratory in Cincinnati...
...point was a crusty Pye ruling that prohibited news photographs and sound recordings not only in his courtroom and courthouse but on "adjacent sidewalks and public streets." Pye issued the order the day that State Revenue Commissioner T. V. Williams, charged with larceny after trust, came up for trial. Atlanta papers carefully obeyed the Pye mandate, snapped no new pictures of Defendant Williams, although the Constitution got a picture of him out of its files and ran it on Page One for four days in a row while the hearing was in progress...
When the trial was over (Williams was acquitted), the Georgia Press Association and Atlanta Newspapers. Inc. brought suit challenging the constitutionality of Judge Pye's long reach. Said the Georgia Press Association, amid a statewide chorus of editorial indignation: "A usurpation of greater authority than was granted him by the public which placed him in office . . . Judge Pye's ruling, if literally interpreted. could apply to any home, street or sidewalk in the state of Georgia...