Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point after another in debate, the rearguard commander became a new kind of Confederate hero back home. "The South owes a great debt to Senator Russell," cheered the often critical Savannah News. "He has proven himself an unflinching champion of the region that gave him birth." Said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "The South's hour may not yet be at hand...
...Dust & Fireflies. Dick Russell's roots lie deeply and inextricably in the long-lost dream of the Old South. He was born in Winder (rhymes with binder), 46 miles northeast of Atlanta, the son of a struggling county courthouse lawyer. He was brought up with six brothers and six sisters amid a smoky Georgia haze of swollen, mud-yellow streams and blowing red dust, of pine-cone fires and fireflies and summer thunder, of white new-blown cotton and wild peach blossoms and slow mules dragging their lazy load. The family was poor-"If we wanted a drink...
...Georgia's chief justice, but he was defeated whenever he tried to run for such popular-vote offices as governor. Young Dick was concerned about his father's failures. Once he went with his father to the governor's mansion in Atlanta and said: "Daddy, I want to live here someday." And in 1931, after learning about military discipline at Gordon Military College, law at the University of Georgia, politics in ten years in the Georgia State legislature, he declared for the job he had always wanted...
While many businessmen will talk willingly with the rare newspaperman who comes around, they know they do not have to: most business sections will uncritically print all the company handouts that fit (sometimes even tacking on a staffer's byline). Says an Atlanta businessman of his home-town papers: "They print our handouts like gospel. We could send them a monstrous lie, and they'd print it without question...
Lately a number of newspapers, from the late James Cox chain's Atlanta Constitution (TIME, July 29) to John S. Knight's Detroit Free Press, have set out to add greater depth and range to their business sections. The New York Times, which has the biggest (21 reporters) and most expert business staff of any general-circulation U.S. daily, drills business-side recruits by Financial Editor Jack Forrest's four-word manual: "Get behind the handout." The result is a flow of economic reporting that widens out from the Times's fat business section and nourishes...