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Energy & Erosion. Sam Carver, a fourth-generation native of Jackson County, Tenn., returned from a Union prison after the Civil War, gathered together what money he had, borrowed some more, bought about 800 acres along Dry Fork Branch, near Liberty, and set out with grim energy to wring his living from the land. Says Joe Moore: "He paid next to nothing for it-about $3,000-and he got his money back the first year on timber. His aim was to make all the money he could off it." Such an aim is one that Joe, himself a proudly acquisitive...
Last week, just before graduation, the academy added a new course for its fourth-year men: a series of lectures on etiquette (e.g., how to eat with a knife and fork at Western banquets, how to choose a wife and treat women). With that final bit of polishing, K.M.A.'s first 157 graduates were off for nine years of compulsory service in the army and to their places as the leaders of Korea's military and technological life. They were, as their superintendent, Major General Chang Kuk Chang, 31, admitted, as bright a bunch of second lieutenants...
Behind the Trappings. For a Prussian prince, Wilhelm began life in 1859 with a crushing handicap. He was born with a crippled left arm and rapidly picked up the inferiority complex that went with it. He was afraid to ride, used a special knife-fork gadget at meals, and exercised his right arm relentlessly to make up for the weakness of the other. As if one physical handicap were not enough, he suffered from a "scrofulous" ear sickness that made a court physician advise an insurance company not to write a policy on his life. Later, many highly placed Germans...
After an hour out for lunch (chicken salad, cowpeas and applesauce), the third speaker arose. He was Fielding L. Wright, who came out of Rolling Fork in the Delta country to become governor of Mississippi (in 1946) and Dixiecrat candidate for Vice President in 1948. Pointing to his longtime record in behalf of white supremacy, Wright adopted an I-told-you-so tone. Said he: "I started eight years ago trying to warn the people of the South what was taking place ... I warned you . . . They will destroy the sovereign states, and no longer will we live under a confederation...
...Smokey, the Dodgers had been refuting Giant Manager Leo Durocher, a man devoted to the argument that the big leagues are no place for nice guys. Said Peewee: "Alston is easy to get along with. I don't know whether he knows how to hold his fork, but believe me, he's a real gentleman...