Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West from Georgia. As the first patron of art in super markets, Charlie Crouch had come a long way from his poverty-ridden Augusta (Ga.) boyhood. "We used to work several months to make enough for a pair of shoes," he says, "and had them half-soled so many times your foot was an inch off the ground." Nourished on hard-won sow belly and corn pone, he swept up in cotton mills, ran errands, jerked sodas and sold papers until he caught the eye of Clarence Saunders, ex-Piggly Wiggly king. When Saunders went broke in 1931, Crouch...
...Augusta, Me., millionaire Textile Manufacturer Allen I. Goldfine recoiled sadly from his wife, his lesser relatives and their charge that his "drinking and debauchery" and "unreasonable charitable contributions" had made him unfit to run his mills. After explaining that he had been a "drinking man since I was 13," he told the court: "We have so much money we don't know what to do with it-that's the trouble with the Goldfines...
...Eliot House and East Northfield; Marvin A. Finklestein '48, of Cambridge; Jerome W. Fischbein '48, of Lowell House and East Orange, N. J.; Howard S. Hibbett, Jr. '44, of the Hotel Brunswick and Woodside, Long Island; Phillippe Meyer '46, of Cambridge; and Caldwell Titcomb '47, of Adams House and Augusta...
...BRIAN MERRY Augusta...
...Look, son Elliott took readers on a tour of the U.S.S. Augusta, at anchor in Argentia Bay, where F.D.R. and Churchill met to frame the Atlantic Charter. Excerpt: "Churchill's neck reddened, he crouched forward. 'Mr. President, England does not propose for a moment to lose its favored position among the dominions...