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...Author, no Florida cracker, worked with her husband at journalism, publicity, advertising in the North. She has lived in Florida less than five years but thinks she is now settled for life. "If there is anything more glamorous than a Florida river I have yet to find it." Now (34), she has tried to be a writer for 24 years. Her first real encouragement came two years ago, when Scribner's printed her long short story "Jacob's Ladder." South Moon Under, with George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Search...
...There was a mean trick played on us somewhere. God put us in the bodies of animals and tried to make us act like people." says Patriarch Ty Ty, in a kind of final apology for the outrageous behavior of his children. Old Ty Ty was a Georgia cracker whose dusty little farm lay fallow while he and all his family dug in it for gold. Sometimes their faith wavered, but never Ty Ty's. Fifteen years he had been digging. When he heard that an albino was supposed to be a good divining-rod he went and roped...
Last week came the cracker that drew roars of glee from all Paris. Of the 72 Deputies, nine wrote to the E. D. L. N. G. promising their undying support. The dumb Deputies...
...November, had already refused to support his methods. Between the White House and the Executive Mansion at Albany a four-day exchange of telegrams, each as coldly polite as any diplomatic note from nation to nation, charted the course of the disagreement. Final statements to the Press furnished the cracker of ill-feeling that ruptured all chance of joint action. Excerpts from the Hoover-Roosevelt correspondence...
...both, until recently, were heads of small independent companies producing chiefly pipe and chewing tobaccos. In the early days of the century when American Tobacco Co. was gobbling up independents in the South, William T. Reed was one of its bitterest foes. He used to hide in grocery store cracker barrels to get evidence against the Trust's agents. He won his fight, remained independent, was making a neat profit out of Edgeworth when his 10? idea put him into the cigaret business in earnest...