Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PAUL ZEMMER Jackson, Tenn...
...rest in every six. His hook off the tee continually landed him in tall grass, behind trees. Yet crowd-drawing, drawling Sammy had somehow managed to stand the winter circuit troupe on its par-cracking ear. Ever since his 26-month hitch in the Navy, the once temperamental Samuel Jackson Snead had played with a brand new and compelling confidence...
...ever that he has one of the most notable gifts in U.S. writing, black or white: a narrative style that is simple, direct, almost completely without pretense or decoration, yet never flat. In Black Boy, that narrative tells the story of his first 1 8 years, in Natchez and Jackson, Miss., Elaine, Ark. and on Beale Street in Memphis. The story is a brilliant account of how it feels to be a sensitive Negro growing up in the U.S. South...
...faculties but without the power to make his hands or his voice obey his will. He was nervous and imaginative in a world where only the strong-willed and easy-going got along. When his mother got a job as a cook he ran wild in the streets of Jackson, sneaked into saloons and begged drinks from the customers, who taught him obscenities and laughed at his drunken staggers. He was then six years...
This suggestion, in a Lincoln Day editorial in the undergraduate weekly Flat Hat of Virginia's old (1693) William and Mary College at Williamsburg, led swiftly last week to: 1) the firing of Flat Hat's Editor in Chief, 22-year-old Marilyn Kaemmerle of Jackson, Mich., who wrote the editorial; 2) an administration edict that the paper's remaining editors must choose between faculty censorship and suspension; 3) a spirited mass meeting of W. & M.'s 1,000-odd students protesting infringement of the "sacred principles of freedom of the press" bequeathed by Alumnus Thomas...