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...Last week the Georgia Press Association hung a portrait of Miss Edna's late husband, who died in 1939, in the Hall of Fame of the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism...
...Miss Edna, rated one of the South's best all-around newswomen, started her career on the Free Press more years ago than she will confess. Against the wishes of her editor father, she then went to New York and landed a kind of country-visitor feature job on the Evening World. Her boss was the late, tyrannical Charles...
...Quitman clergyman used his churchly influence to wheedle a local grocer out of more than his Hooverized share of flour. The news leaked, and Quitman's food administrator cracked down on the parson. The scandal rocked the town. A Quitman banker, chief elder of the church, ordered Miss Edna to write an editorial denouncing the food administrator. She laughed him out of her office. Next day came word that the bank was going to foreclose a loan on the Free Press. When this news got around, Quitman quickly showed what it thought of the Free Press and its editor...
...start of Gene Talmadge's last campaign for Governor, three local businessmen suggested that a favorable editorial policy would bring the paper an expensive ad for their candidate. Miss Edna told them they ought to have more gallantry toward a woman. Later, another businessman threatened to cancel his advertising unless the Free Press let up on Talmadge. "All right," said Miss Edna, "you can cancel, but I'll give you one free ad. I'll write it and tell why you canceled. That's blackmail, I suppose, but I learned about it from you." The advertising...
...Miss Edna's editorials are read and quoted far from Quitman. Sometimes she chooses national topics: "Arthur Krock in the New York Times was lamenting that we had lost the freedom of the press for the duration of the war. He'd better be concerned about what we did with the freedom of the press when we had it." But mostly her thoughts and her words are of Quitman and Brooks County...