Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXPLORING AMERICAN CAVES (280 pp.)−Franklin Folsom−Crown...
Last Frontier? Poet-Novelist Franklin Folsom, a Rhodes scholar and onetime lettuce packer, may be just the agent to swell that number. He has illuminated his gloomy subject with literary style, and Exploring American Caves−with its scores of enchanting photographs and its bold plunge into virtually virgin writing territory−may prove to be classic cave literature. "Caves," proclaims Spelunker Folsom, "are, in a sense, the last frontier. [Those] who explore the underground night have yet to reach the end of even the best-known caverns in this country...
...most obvious and provocative speleological problem," writes Caveman Folsom, "is this: where, exactly, are all the thousands of caves that surely exist but whose whereabouts are not yet known...
...beat Folsom was another significant pointer to Alabama's hardening mood: State Representative Charles W. McKay Jr., 35, lawyer, World War II bomber navigator, chairman of the Sylacauga White Citizens' Council, who authored the state's nullification resolution...
McKay's way of campaigning was to call Folsom "one of the foremost supporters of the N.A.A.C.P." His victory was a grim political omen that would put little heart into the beleaguered moderates of the Deep South...