Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later he headed back to the hustings in his chartered Lockheed Lodestar, catching badly needed catnaps aloft with the aid of a sleeping mask. He invaded pro-Russell North Carolina for some folksy talk about daughter Linda's troubles with the mumps. Then he boarded his plane for Chattanooga, his adopted home town, to raise funds at a $25-a-head barbecue and to collect some extravagant tributes. Sample: "Tennessee gives us the modern Andrew Jackson...
...Country Boy. He graduated, from Yale Law School in 1927, and was a good lawyer right from the beginning. He turned out to have a special way with juries that brought him a bid from the topflight Chattanooga law firm of Sizer and Chambliss. "Keef handled a jury like a country boy," said one of his ex-partners recently. "He would establish himself as a country boy, then recite the facts and lead the jury along. He used language the jurors could understand. He never tried to be eloquent or quoted poetry...
...blind date one night in 1934 Keef met Nancy Piggott, a lively redhead who was visiting her well-to-do aunt in Chattanooga. Nancy was an American girl born near Glasgow, Scotland. Her U.S.-born father, Stephen Piggott, was a designer of marine engines for a Scottish firm, became a British subject and was subsequently knighted. Keef followed Nancy home to Scotland, and married her there. Back in Chattanooga, Keef's new wife-witty, wise and devoted-was a great social asset to a close-mouthed young lawyer. They were a popular couple. In 1937 the Chattanooga Junior Chamber...
Tennessee, which last week rolled over Chattanooga, 42-13. General Bob Neyland, in his 20th coaching year for the Volunteers, has fielded another of his meticulously perfect single-wing attacks (plays are rehearsed 500 times), sparked by Halfback Hank Lauricella. The defense, always a Neyland specialty, is anchored this year by All-America Guard...
THEO. SLADE Chattanooga, Tenn...