Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Leroy Pope Walker in Huntsville came the 1861 order to fire on Fort Sumter. For years, Madison County was Alabama's top cotton producer (80,000 bales in 1948) and Huntsville, with nine mills, lived on King Cotton. The Depression almost left one-industry Huntsville a ghost town. Says a longtime resident: "If you could stand on the courthouse steps with as much as a dollar in your pocket, you were the richest man in town." Huntsville's big boom began in 1950, when Wernher von Braun & Co. arrived to start making Army missiles at Redstone Arsenal...
Mystery Spinner Erie Stanley (The Case of the Glamorous Ghost) Gardner, 68, customarily dictates his thrillers at a rate of up to 10,000 words a day, often working on as many as seven at the same time. Last December the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, reviewing two of them, hinted that such mass production could come only from a factory, implied that A. A. Fair, Gardner's best-known pseudonym, was a real, live ghost. After Gardner's indignant publishers, William Morrow & Co., all but put Lawyer Perry Mason on the case, the newspaper this week politely allowed...
...necessarily true." "I am surprised," said Agent Brooks. "He possesses extraordinary powers of telepathy." Ailing Hoaxer Hoskin (he says he has both heart disease and cancer) insisted, in a tape recording made for a British commercial TV program, that his book was all true-he had merely ghosted it for a ghost...
...Ghost's Ghost. Hoskin had "gone Eastern" while working for a career-counseling firm in London. He shaved his head, grew a beard, changed his name and wrote a rhyme to his managing director: "You may wonder why I go on so But will you please remember I am Kuan Suo." When he was sacked some time later, he took to "spivving it" and writing occasional magazine articles. To Literary Agent Cyrus Brooks he brought a manuscript on corsets and such a high, wide and fancy load of Himalayan snow that...
Interrogator Wallace asked San Francisco Poet Lamantia to explain two of his lines: Come Holy Ghost, for we can rise/ Out of this Jazz...