Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The exits of most hired newsrooms hands are quiet and quick. The exit of John Temple Graves II from the staff of the Birmingham Age-Herald last week was a five-day rowdydow.
For 17 years, Graves's column, "This Morning," had the Age-Herald's Page One, Column One spot. He was stoutly in favor of Southern chivalry, Birmingham-made steel, free enterprise, John Temple Graves II and segregation of Negroes. A round-faced, goggle-eyed Georgian of 53, Graves...
In Birmingham, Columnist Graves lived gently on the far side of Red Mountain, away from the city's valleyful of smoke & soot, and became, in his own words, "a Southerner who is willing to make it a profession." He mailed his column to about a half dozen other Southern...
Columnist Graves was prone to quote such back-pats from admirers as this one: "Silver has its Bryan, the League of Nations its Wilson, the sensible free speech has you. ... All hail to the champion of freedom." To which Columnist Graves generously responded, in print: "All hail to you, too...
A fortnight ago, Graves, who had not had a raise in all his Age-Herald years, was informed by General Manager James E. Chappell that "This Morning" would be booted off Page One forthwith and deposited inside the paper. Graves promptly wrote to Chappell: "My column has . . . become easily the...