Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlanta, Arnold Pair, 36, father of five-year-old Johnny Pair (TIME, Oct. 1), finally consented to allow surgeons to remove his son's sole remaining cancerous eye. It was a decision he had agonized over for five weeks. "I've cried myself to sleep every night since I made the decision," he said, "but it's the only way to save his life. The doctors convinced me of that." After the operation, surgeons pronounced Johnny's chances of recovery from cancer "reasonably good." Two days later, Johnny's doctor explained to him what...
...Chicago, where 38.3 hours of color a week sparkle out from the first U.S. "all-color" station (WNBQ), not more than 5,000 sets are in operation. The prevailing U.S. apathy to tinted TV was echoed last week by an idle viewer at Rich's department store in Atlanta. "I know the grass is green at Ebbets Field," he said. "It isn't worth $400 more to find out how green...
...column in the Atlanta Journal of Oct. 11 takes issue with the Administration's decision to cancel a proposed basketball team tour through the South...
...Gene had never achieved. Businessmen who financed Georgia's political campaigns liked Herman's lower corporation taxes and found his conservative views comforting. The rank-and-file voters liked his lavish spending for public works (with no taint of corruption). And after the Supreme Court decisions, even Atlanta moderates found Herman's segregation policies less offensive. So when Herman, in January 1955, turned over the governor's office to hand-picked Marvin Griffin, Senator George and his friends knew that at last a Talmadge had a good chance of getting to the Senate. Four months before...
...embracing organization, the National Democratic Party. This was a point best brought out by Candidate Adlai Stevenson as he swung through the South last spring, drumming up support for his nomination. Said Stevenson of Talmadge, while a house guest at the executive mansion during Herman's regime in Atlanta: "We can agree on a great many more things than we disagree on, and we need one another...