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...Atlanta, Ga., Negro Willie Boston shuffled into a municipal hospital with a two-hour-old baby in her arms, demanded to know if it was "all right." Assured it was, she admitted she was the babe's mother, trudged off with it to resume her housework...
Most famed of Yale footballers, Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy was All-America fullback in 1908 and 1909, a member of Walter Camp's All-Time-All- America team. After graduation, he entered brokerage and insurance. His first wife was Sophie Meldrim, Savannah, Ga. socialite who divorced him in 1925. His second was Actress Jeanne Eagels, who divorced him in 1928. His third was one Lottie Bruhn of El Paso, Tex., who dropped from sight after his death last September. Last week, as the pawnbroker wrote to Skull & Bones in New Haven which immediately bought Coy's relics, newshawks...
...Said Otis Moore, manager of the President's 2,500-acre farm near Warm Springs, Ga. last week: "It's bad on the farm. The way it looks now we'll be lucky to make one-fifth of a crop. We're going to lose a lot of money...
Unlike other cities of the Old South, Atlanta, Ga. was a modern industrial community from the start. Staked out just one hundred years ago as a railroad terminal, it soon grew until four important lines crossed there. Its commercial activity had few attractions to Southerners who were trained to the slower pace of plantations, while its pushing, aggressive, competitive life made it distasteful to the leisured aristocrats of Savannah or Charleston. But as an island of industrialism in the drowsy sea of Southern society, Atlanta attracted dissatisfied spirits who were fed up with the old order and wanted change even...
Save for some months during the War, in training as a machine-gunner at Camp Hancock, Ga., the rest of his life has been devoted to law and politics. In law he made an astute alliance with Ralph T. ("Dyke") O'Neil, past commander of the American Legion and a Democrat. The firm of Hamilton & O'Neil, with feet in both political camps, did well. In 1934 Partner O'Neil got involved in the War Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain...