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...local reporting under "deadline pressure," the Vicksburg (Miss.) Sunday Post-Herald (circ. 8,800). It won for its coverage of a tornado that struck Vicksburg (pop. 27,948) last December, killed 39, left 1,200 homeless and destroyed communications. Despite the destruction, City Editor Charles Faulk, 39, with a staff of only five reporters, quickly got out an edition of the paper with up-to-the-minute news and pictures of the entire disaster...
...West Barrington. R.I., Confederate flags replaced the traditional red flags used to show where tournament players' golf balls lie in the rough. In the all-Southern final of the National Women's Amateur golf championship were Fort Worth's Polly Riley. 27, and Mary Lena Faulk. 27. of Thomasville, Ga. After firing a brilliant morning round of 73 strokes at the Rhode Island Country Club (women's par: 74), Georgia's Faulk wobbled somewhat in the broiling (100°) afternoon, but held enough of her morning edge to beat Texan Riley...
This month, for the first time, Lesbia expects to play in the National Amateur championship, where she will be up against such topnotchers as Seattle's Pat Lesser, Georgia's Mary Lena Faulk and Barbara Romack of Sacramento. The thought of "so many of them all so good" prompted Lesbia to get down to a bit of practice last week. Lesbia did not expect to burn up the practice course: "The only time I really like to play is in a tournament. I don't know why, but I just do better with all those people staring...
...when Postmaster General Farley shook up the airmail contracts in 1934, Woolman saw his chance. With only two planes, 25 employes and more nerve than cash, he snagged the mail contract for the Dallas-Atlanta-Charleston, S.C. run. Meanwhile, 63-year-old ex-Newspaper Publisher Clarence Eugene Faulk, who made $500,000 when he sold his Monroe (La.) News-Star and Morning Post, was buying blocks of Delta at $5 a share. Later Delta stock went to $40 (then split 4-for-1) and Faulk went to the president's chair as finance overseer. Woolman became operating vice president...
...UNVANQUISHED-William Faulk- ner-Random House...