Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanted to be a musician disappeared in the wilds of sea and mountains between Brunswick, Ga., and Rio de Janeiro. In his youth in Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon...
...Brunswick, Ga., came Rev. W. K. C. Redfern, Baptist minister and dean of Benedict's College, Negro institution, at Columbia, S. C. He is Paul Redfern's father, and together they mapped the course down the Caribbean Sea to Porto Rico, over the Windward Islands to British Guiana in South America, south to Brazil, across Brazil to Rio. He helped 108-lb. Paul load into the Port of Brunswick sandwiches, food, coffee, a rifle and cartridges, fishing tackle, mosquito nets, quinine, light boots, knives, signal flares, rubber life raft. These were to save his life if he landed...
Georgia Barbecue. A mingling of whites and blackamoors occurred last week in Woodland, Ga. The scene was a huge barbecue, given by a group of Caucasians for the Negroes of the vicinity. Members of the two races ran foot races toi gether, feasted together, laughed, gossiped. There was a baseball game for Negroes only. The chief white speakers, H. A. Alsobrooks and John Rigden, agricultural agents for railroads, lauded the Negroes for their thrift and industry, urged them to buy more farms and stay in the South. The Rev. J. R. Cason, Negro, replied that the Georgia white...
...vice president in 1920, who contracted infantile paralysis in the epidemic of 1922, but regained the use of his legs through warm mineral water treatments, revealed the formation of a Georgia Warm Springs Foundation which, with a fund of $75,000, has organized a special hospital at Warm Springs, Ga...
...with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments?Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta, Ga...