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...requires the public to atone for reading several Chapman Reports by acknowledging one To Kill a Mockingbird. Whatever the reasons, the book world almost certainly is about to see the fascinating process begin again with A Long and Happy Life, the first novel of a 29-year-old North Carolinian now living in Oxford, England: Reynolds Price...
...which bit him on the knuckles of his right hand, was near death as he fought a 105° fever and lost 40 lbs., but finally survived to collect a $300 bonus, a $200-a-month lifetime pension and a special congressional medal. When asked why he volunteered, South Carolinian Hanberry replied: "It was the thing to do." After his Cuban ordeal, Hanberry never again entered a hospital until last December...
Edward Roscoe (baptized Egbert Roscoe) Murrow, Director of the U.S. Information Agency. North Carolinian Murrow's apocalyptic voice and Delphic punditry first gained force during his CBS ''THIS . . . is London" newscasts during World War II. As CBS's top commentator, and later as a director and vice president in charge of news and special events, he lent the same organ-toned quality to such TV shows as Person to Person and See It Now (both programs have since been dropped). Because of apparent differences on policy with the network brass, he took a sabbatical...
...Dilly Bean's success is a tribute to the power of advertising. Armed with her mother's Southern recipe for pickled beans, a North Carolinian named Sonya Hagna, 24, decided to give up her New Jersey schoolteaching job in 1958 and take a fling at pickling. She enlisted Fellow Schoolteacher Jacquelyn Park, 25, began pickling Dilly Beans and packing them by hand, then set up Park & Hagna with joint capital of $4,000, engaged a fledgling ad agency named Papert, Koenig & Lois. The agency suggested an irreverent ad campaign aimed at making dilly-tantes out of people...
Religious Issue. Most talked about reason for Southern restlessness is Jack Kennedy's Roman Catholicism. "We haven't come as far from '28 as I thought," said a North Carolinian last week. Kennedy is being openly chastised from many a Protestant pulpit. Dr. Ward V. Barr of Gastonia, N.C.'s First Baptist Church says flatly: "I fear Catholicism more than I fear Communism...