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...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...
...American Economic Mission to the Far East, whose report on Japanese industry acted powerfully to dispel the popular notion that Japan's booming foreign trade was made possible by hideously sweated labor. One of the members of the Forbes mission, President Roosevelt's Georgia neighbor, Cason Callaway, followed it by helping to promote the agreement concluded last winter between U. S. and Japanese cotton textile men, freezing Japan's export quotas at 255,000,000 yd. for 1937-38. These visits stirred the shrewd and courteous Japanese to reciprocity. Last month Mr. Forbes became chairman...
...Author Cason was right about his countrymen's taste in reading, most of them would never even see his "psychograph." Said he: "The Southerner reads the morning newspaper because he wants to know about the Society events and the election campaigns, which he regards in somewhat the same light; but he thinks books are suitable only for invalids." With roundabout irony which sometimes straightens into indignation Author Cason casts his dissatisfied eye over the Southern scene, finds it on the whole down-at-heel, lazy, complacent, resigned, ignorant, cynical, exasperating. Southern sensitiveness to criticism he calls "dangerously suggestive...
...days before his book was scheduled to appear in Tuscaloosa bookstores Critic Cason sat in his office after hours, thinking over what he had written. Had he been too extreme? Would his neighbors consider him a renegade? Had he jeopardized a pleasant life for the doubtful fame of writing a controversial book? Finally Critic Cason found the answer. He put a revolver muzzle to his mouth, pulled the trigger...