Word: cumberland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked 18 months at a Tallahassee grocery, saved $500 and bought a business course at Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He worked two years as a teller for the Exchange Bank in Tallahassee, saved another $500 and bought a law course at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn. He finished the one-year course and passed the Florida bar exam with the second highest grade ever scored until then. "I came home," said Roy Collins, "boldly hung out my shingle-and proceeded to starve." Early in 1932 Roy spoke of marriage to dark-eyed Mary Call Darby, but there...
...fanfare, and a dozen spotlights lanced through the darkened arena to center on a wiry, suddenly pale young man who stood awkwardly rubbing the sweat from his palms. Joe Moore, who runs a farm near Liberty, about halfway between the communities of Accident and Nameless in Tennessee's Cumberland foothills, had just been named 1955's Star Farmer of America...
...less dedicated man, the abolitionist preacher called John Gregg Fee might have thought he had done enough for the illiterate mountain folk he had come to serve. On a desolate tract of land donated by Cassius Clay, he had established a whole new community at the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains in Kentucky. He had dug the well, built the nonsectarian church, opened the one-room schoolhouse in 1855. But now, he wrote later in the American Missionary, "we need a college here . . . an antislavery, anti-caste, anti-rum, antitobacco, anti-sectarian, pious school under Christian influence, a school that...
Manhattan Prospects. Ruefully, Rue admits that most of his calls are for current race results, but any day is sure to bring other momentous questions. What was the largest football score ever run up? (In 1916 Cumberland University lost to Georgia Tech 222-0.)* What was the largest crowd ever to watch a water polo game? (In 1932 10,000 at the Los Angeles Olympic games.) S.I.R. will answer any reasonable query, but once refused to give Pro Wrestler Lord Carlton's address to an irate female fan who wanted to take him apart after watching...
...game in which garrulous George Allen, Franklin Roosevelt's political handyman, Harry Truman's White House jester and Dwight Eisenhower's golf companion, was Cumberland's captain. As George tells it, he made Cumberland's best run: "I only lost six yards...