Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick was born in the windswept town of Winder (rhymes with binder) in the rolling, blood-red Georgia hills 52 miles northeast of Atlanta. With twelve brothers & sisters, he grew up in a stern, religious home. Father was a Presbyterian, mother a Methodist, and the full text of the Bible had been read aloud in the home twice before Dick was 13. Justice was dealt with a peachtree switch and a leather strap, and Dick still remembers the time his mother whipped him "until the blood came...
Does a judge have the right to order an editor to print something that he would like to see in the newspaper? Most U.S. editors would laugh at the thought, but for Editor Ralph McGill and Managing Editor William Fields of the Atlanta Constitution last week, it was no laughing matter. Floyd County's Judge Horace Elmo Nichols, who asserted that "Freedom of the press has no better or more sincere advocate than I," had sentenced both to 20 days in jail, plus a $200 fine apiece for contempt of court. Reason: Judge Nichols objected to a series...
Regional Public Service: WSB & WSB-TV, for "promoting the best interests of Atlanta, Ga. and the Southeast" in WSB's The Pastor's Study and WSB-TV's Our World Today...
...routes of Delta Air Lines form a jagged Y from Chicago to Miami and from Atlanta to Dallas. But Delta President C. E. Woolman would like them to cover the eastern half of the U.S. like a crazy quilt. In 1950, he made a deal to merge with Northeast, thus cash in on some lucrative New England business. Then he offered to buy the southern routes of Capital Airlines. Last week, while both these deals awaited approval, Woolman dreamed of further expansion...