Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pudgy little man in smoothly fitted tails put down his baton, turned to the audience and inclined his balding head to the salvos of applause. That was in his native Jackson, Miss., where last week he conducted the stage premiere of his opera The Soldier plus his Malady of Love for a two-night stand. The next night, in black tie, he turned up in the pit of Manhattan's Lunt-Fontanne Theater, where he presided over a performance of Leroy Anderson's brassy musical Goldilocks. Four days later, in a sweatshirt, he was hovering over the orchestra...
...failure to have a course in Western history is indeed unfortunate. While Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis may not be in current vogue in the History Department, anyone interested in American history should be familiar with the Westward Movement. The influence of the frontier certainly did have a profound effect on American history; but many history concentrators graduate unaware of this fact. Several years ago a course was given on the literature of the West and South; it was also discontinued. At present, there is no course for those interested in either the Westward Movement or in the cultural history...
...Thousands who never knew that Casey Jones had actually existed still sang of him-and of the other papa on the Salt Lake Line. And last week, impoverished and bitter, Janie Jones, 92, died in Jackson. She had never remarried...
Huggins, 55, a railway electrician of Chattanooga, had long suffered from hemorrhoids, eventually agreed to have them removed on Sept. 3 by Dr. Charles Jackson Ray in Chattanooga's Memorial Hospital, a Roman Catholic institution run by the Nazareth Literary and Benevolent Institute. Huggins was admitted the day before. So was Bill Slater, scheduled to undergo operation by Dr. Joseph W. Graves for correction of a hernia and removal of a diseased left testicle. In the morning, each patient got preliminary anesthetic, and was trundled off to the operating rooms. One room was reserved...
Died. Janie Brady Jones, 92, widow of John Luther ("Casey'') Jones, railroad engineer made immortal by a folk song; following a stroke; in Jackson, Tenn. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...