Word: cason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gainesville, Fla., Pulitzer-Prizewinning Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings (The Yearling) was ordered to pay damages to Zelma Cason, who had complained that Novelist Rawlings had put her in Cross Creek and thus invaded her privacy. The damages: $1. The court costs, which Novelist Rawlings also...
Hillbilly Come-On. One afternoon when he drove into Mendenhall, seat of Simpson County, only seven courthouse loafers were on hand to greet him. To drum up a crowd, his nephew, Cason Rankin, hooked up a loudspeaker in the Congressman's black Buick sedan, toured the town playing hillbilly recordings. But half an hour's driving netted only three more shirtsleeved listeners. John Rankin brushed back his mane of stringy yellow hair, flung out his arms and shouted...
...revolutionize southern farming. Already the kudzu cult has a radio program (on Atlanta's WAGA) and an organization of more than 1,000 ardent growers, the Kudzu Club of America, Inc. Chief kudzu-cultists are two well-known Georgia gentleman farmers, Channing Cope, a onetime utility man, and Cason Callaway, retired textile manufacturer...
...leading U.S. university presses, publishing many pioneer studies in Southern sociology, especially those of Odum and his followers. In 1935 the press brought out Clarence Cason's 90° in the Shade a few days after the Alabamian blew out his brains, fearing the reaction of his University of Alabama colleagues to his acid study of Southern culture...
Married. Virginia Hand ("Jinx") Callaway, 19, only daughter of Textile Tycoon Cason Callaway, good friend of fellow Warm Springs Enthusiast Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Lieut. Benjamin Mart Bailey Jr., 24, football and track star on 1939 West Point teams; in La Grange...