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...Honoria Dabney and their descendants ; how they settled in Mississippi, fought Indians, traded in slaves, cleared land, built roads, made fortunes, formed the Free State of Lebanon (in opposition to the Confederacy) during the Civil...
Between installments of the Dabney saga, Author Street, a onetime Baptist preacher and former newspaperman, wrote a novel of contemporary Mississippi, In My Father's House, and The Gauntlet (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945), which sold 800,000 copies. In the midst of writing Tomorrow We Reap, which carries the Dabney clan beyond 1893, he bogged down, doubted that he could finish the book. Alabama-born James Childers (Laurel and Straw), an Air Force colonel in World War II and a Dabney fan, volunteered to help him. The result is unspectacular, although followers of the Dabneys will want to read...
Sadja Stokowski '51 was named winner of Radcliffe's Oliver-Dabney Prize in History 1 for her essay on the Italian elections of 1948, Michael Karpovitch, professor of History, announced yesterday...
...Oliver-Dabney History and Literature prize, given to the "most promising junior' in the department, went to Jeanne Melchior '50. The award, which is to be spent within a year on books, is decided on the basis of marks, general examinations, and tutorial...
Marguerite Jupp '51 also received an Oliver-Dabney award as the sophomore in the History and Literature Department whose work has shown the greatest promise during the year...