Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight, the frightening rumors crossed the Atlantic and chilled Professor Harold J. Laski, articulate British socialist (TIME, April 29). The U.S., cried Laski, possessed an atomic masterpiece so powerful that five of them could destroy the whole of the U.S. south of the Mason-Dixon line...
Died. Thomas Dixon, 82, unreconstructed Southern novelist; in Raleigh, N.C. His best-known work, The Clans man, an idealization of the original Ku Klux Klan as the South's knights in shining armor, became the first million-dollar movie (The Birth of a Nation, 1915). Lawyer, politician, Baptist minister, son of a Klan founder, he capitalized on race prejudice, harped loud & long on white ("Aryan") supremacy, sold over 5,000,000 copies of his 20 novels...
...DIXON MERRITT...
...Dixon Merritt, skinny, big-beaked Tennessee newsman who in 1909 hatched the famed but limping pelican limerick,* couldn't stop friends from improving the occasion of his retirement as REA press-agent with the revelation of his own (fit-to-print but still limping) favorite...
When Congressmen from below the Mason-Dixon line speak up, southern womanhood rarely lacks champions. Georgia's Fifth District last week sent the House a woman to speak for herself...