Word: dothan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Match. He said he hoped they wouldn't credit him. The A.P. photographer was snapping away, grumbling. "I'd rather be out coverin' civil rights marches, shit. Or a convention--them Kennedy people taught me how to buy a convention. Nineteen-sixty, there I was, lil' country boy from Dothan, Alabama, coverin' Johnson, shit, they'd paid off everybody. Paid off the goddam elevator boys. If you was with Johnson, you couldn't get an elevator for 25 minutes." Click click click. "Shit, this is weird, ain't it boy?" Indeedy sir, it's right weird...
Died. Joe David Brown, 60, journalist and bestselling author (Addie Pray, Stars in My Crown, Kings Go Forth); of a heart attack; near Mayfield, Ga. Brown at 21 became the nation's youngest managing editor (of the Dothan, Ala., Eagle). After serving as a paratrooper in World War II, he became a TIME writer and a correspondent overseas; he later wrote for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Time-Life Books. Brown, between journalistic jobs, turned to short stories and novels, many of which were about life in the backwoods South which the courtly author knew and loved. Three books became movies...
...given to loud clothes and fast cars, he is an energetic crusader who, in his self-styled role as "the people's attorney," has tilted with strip-miners, polluters, and, in an effort to lower prices, the Alabama dairy commission. The only thing between Baxley, a native of Dothan, and the governorship is George Wallace. That is quite an obstacle, but then Baxley figures to be around for a long time...
...presentations that often confuse the viewer. Fairly typically, a recent one-hour segment of Rebel Without a Cause, shown in the late afternoon, was interrupted by six commercial breaks totaling 16 minutes. Kenneth Cox, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, complained last week that one station, WAGF in Dothan, Ala., shows 41 minutes of commercials in an hour. Since the number of commercials is limited only by a voluntary but unenforceable code of the National Association of Broadcasters,* the FCC feels powerless to cut the clutter...