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When a flu epidemic hit Georgia in 1938, it felled the only available white doctor in Jasper and Putnam counties, left hundreds of his rural patients with one hard-to-swallow recourse. They had to call on gentle Dr. Frederick D. Funderburg, a Negro physician. Working virtually around the clock, Dr. Funderburg attended as many as 60 white patients a day, succeeded in checking the epidemic...
Ryder's dignified cousin Jasper, who was in his fourth year, was bitter. "I expected you," said he, coldly fixing his eyes on a human skull resting in a bowl of roses, "to make some mistakes your first year. We all do. I got in with some thoroughly objectionable . . . men who ran a mission to hop-pickers in the long vac. But you, my dear Charles . . . have gone straight hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University. . . . There's that chap Sebastian Flyte you seem inseparable from. . . . [He] looks odd to me. ... Of course...
...Almost since the war started, they had innocently used the term "G.I. Joe." Then from Santa Barbara, Calif., came a report that soldiers resented it, thought it patronizing. Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon gave his old-soldier version of the name: "For over 40 years a Joe has meant a Jasper, a Joskin, a yokel, a hey-rube, a hick, a clodhopper, a sucker." Runyon remembered that in the last war G.I. (i.e., "government issue") meant "the big galvanized iron garbage and ash can in the back of each company barracks...
Congress now had a new kind of permanent investigating committee. In irresponsible hands it could, as it often had under Martin Dies, become a threat to civil liberties, by using the authority and prestige of Congress for unscrupulous or bigoted ends. In Jasper, Tex., where he heard about the coup, Martin Dies, Congressman no longer, beamed...
High Tea. In Detroit, Charles Willoughby and Jasper Manier got 90 days in jail for selling to Mrs. William Young, for $10, two whiskey bottles full of cold...