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Barefoot Girl. The story of Candidate Jacqueline Cochran is beyond the rosiest dreams of Horatio Alger. She does not know who her parents were, or where she was born an estimated 47 years ago. Her childhood was spent in a succession of Florida and Georgia cracker shanties, in dreary sawmill towns at the dead ends of Tobacco Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars...
...state Supreme Court will have to rule on his eligibility to succeed himself. (The issue: Will his two years count as a term?) If he clears that hurdle, he may face formidable opposition next year from ex-Governor Fuller Warren, a highly popular figure whose supporters stretch from the cracker counties of the north to the dog-track fraternity of Miami...
...mother's behest, he spent the year in Chicago becoming a chiropractor. (Today Ted Adams' family boasts that he is the best neck-snapper and vertebrae-cracker in the Baptist ministry.) In 1921 Ted and Earl (now an official of the National Council of Churches) graduated as Phi Beta Kappas from Ohio's Denison University, and Ted immediately enrolled at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, where his father had studied. His first call was to the Cleveland Heights Baptist Church, and within a year 26-year-old Pastor Adams had married Esther Josephine Jillson, a small, energetic girl...
...time, when nobody could catch any fish, Calpurnia turned hard times into soft times by finding a secret river crammed with succulent catfish. Evidently, Author Rawlings never published the story because she hoped some day to dream it up to novel-size. It is reminiscent of the same cracker-filled scrub forests and 'gator-filled streams of northern Florida's wild St. Johns River country that the novelist described almost two decades ago in The Yearling. A charmingly illustrated idyl, with just the right mixture of fish story and black-water magic, The Secret River is well worth...
Only once were the Dons beaten-by U.C.L.A., in U.C.L.A.'s cracker...