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Purple Prose. The man who made LIFE was a Southerner, born at Redcliffe, the Beech Island, S.C., plantation built by his great-grandfather, onetime South Carolina Governor and U.S. Senator James Henry ("Cotton Is King") Hammond. Billings dropped out of Harvard to drive an ammunition truck for the French army in World War I, then became a reporter for the Bridgeport, Conn., Telegram. He was fired, he recalled, for "writing too goddam much purple prose," and went to the old Brooklyn Eagle as Washington correspondent. Luce hired him in 1928 as TIME'S capital stringer to succeed...
Turk is an enthusiastic guide who leavens his tours with puns and one-liners. Sample: "Have you heard about the tree that didn't know whether it was a son of a birch or a son of a beech?" But he is serious about spreading the word that trees can repair the land, and has even written and published a book, The New Forest, describing his experiences. The book is dedicated to the spirit of Johnny Appleseed, who "planted while others palavered." Those words could just as easily describe Turk Jones...
Died. Lloyd Stearman, 76, pioneering U.S. aircraft designer; of cancer; in Northridge, Calif. A Navy pilot during World War I, Stearman teamed up with two other air-struck Kansans, Walter Beech and Clyde Cessna, to build a generation of simple biplanes that became the Model Ts of the barnstorming 1920s. Though he founded his own aircraft firm and briefly ran Lockheed Aircraft Corp., his heart belonged to the drawing board; there he conceived such notable planes as the PT-17, the agile, open-cockpit trainer, known to thousands of World War II pilots as "the Yellow Peril," and continued...
...Cliffe squad beat Hollins, 8-1, on Wednesday before travelling to Boone, N.C. for a match with Appalachian State. Appalachian State is located a few miles down the road from Beech Mountain, one of the South's best known ski resorts, and on Thursday there was snow covering the slopes and the courts cancelling any tennis...
...decided to do something about it. The city and county governments and the Chamber of Commerce joined with community leaders to recruit diverse businesses to take the burden of employment-and stability-off the aircraft industry. During the '60s about one in four employed Wichitans worked for either Beech Aircraft, Cessna, Boeing or Gates Learjet...