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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such backing certainly suggests that the paper has plenty of well-wishers, and it is just this point that Publisher Davis means to prove.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Another Voice in Atlanta | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Central Weakness. In the opinion of many Georgians, the Journal and the Constitution are a disgrace to all red-blooded white Southerners. Roy V. Harris, a rallier of the state's racists, usually refers to the Constitution's publisher as "Rastus" Ralph McGill. While in office, Congressman Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Another Voice in Atlanta | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Expected Tolerance. It was this sort of talk that started James Davis on his campaign to vary Atlanta's newspaper conversation. He found some willing segregationist cohorts, among them Roscoe Pickett, who is now Georgia's Republican national committeeman, and Lester Maddox, proprietor of an Atlanta fried-chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Another Voice in Atlanta | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Margin Time. The family lived in a Bronx apartment house, where "we were often the only Gentiles." Frank went to De Witt Clinton High School on the 12:30-to-5 p.m. shift, did no work, barely got through, and had no intention of going to college. He was drafted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Gilroy Is Here | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Lady in a Cage. A power failure. In an elegant old mansion a self-service elevator stops suddenly at an awkward level between floors. In it, mildly startled, stands a middle-aged woman with a book of poems in one hand and a Lowestoft jar in the other. "Don'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivia Goes Ape | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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