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...born into adversity, in 1932, as the fourth of five children of farmers in Kingsland, Ark. For his family, as with others in the Depression-wracked area, cotton was the Cash crop. "We planted cotton in the spring, and we picked it in the fall," says Merline Hall, 77, a childhood friend of the Cash children. "And you used your fingers. There were not any [mechanical] pickers back then. At least, none of us had one." She recalls John as "a good kid" who sang (while his mother Carrie played piano) at the Central Baptist Church...
...seem more persuasive than fact. Nicolas Roeg's Castaway has another challenge. Just try believing that a bright, spirited woman like Lucy Irvine (Amanda Donohoe) would answer a man's ad for a desert-island mate and set out for a year alone with an impractical chap like Gerald Kingsland (Oliver Reed). But it did happen, and Roeg and Writer Allan Scott have made an engaging movie based on Irvine's memoir...
...book took seven years to research and write and required interviews with 522 people. Caro also spent hundreds of hours reading papers left by Al Smith, Suffolk County Boss W. Kingsland Macy, La Guardia and others...
Bitter Beginnings. Times were not always so good for Johnny, fourth of the seven children born to Ray and Carrie Cash. From a three-room shack in Kingsland, Ark., the hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes...
...water reserves to a quarter-million gallons, was assisted by a federal matching grant after Johnson Citians had voted a $217,000 revenue bond issue to finance their half. Still, Lyndon Johnson gets the credit for most improvements: there is a Lake Lyndon B. Johnson in nearby Kingsland, a Lyndon B. Johnson High School, a Lyndon Baines Johnson State Park, and several roads bearing the presidential name. In the Texas state capital of Austin-an hour's drive from Johnson City-there will be the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library at the University of Texas. About the only local institution...