Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your biting comments on Publisher Robert McCormick (TIME, Nov. 2) may be entirely in accord with the facts. Most Southerners, having scant reason for loving him, are quite ready to believe the worst about him. Nevertheless, members of the Louisiana Press Association are not willing to go along with you when you say: "Publisher McCormick is aloof and domineering . . . possesses such an aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupé, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift...
...speech, hurrying out to the airport immediately he had finished and flew to Memphis in time to get a night train back to Chicago. He paid the entire expense of the trip himself. He lost one day from his Chicago paper, but his good sportsmanship and courtesy to the Louisiana newspaper publishers and editors will not soon be forgotten. Behind that tough exterior you paint in such bitter colors, he evidently has a heart...
Below the Mason-Dixon the wave continued unbroken. Started by Talmadge's failure in September it reached a climax in the crushing defeat of the Coughlin carbon-copy, Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, of Louisiana. This worthy successor to the mantle of Huey Long, revealed his true colours when, blinded by the rout of his forces, he turned to obscene and filthy language on the streets of New Orleans and was thrown into jail; what power he ever had ended for ever...
Four miles from St. Francisville. in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, there is an imposing, three-story plantation house called Oakley, built in 1810 by James Pirrie and still inhabited by his descendants. There, in the summer of 1821, a 35-year-old wandering painter named John James Audubon arrived to teach French and painting to 16-year-old Eliza Pirrie. It was almost his first good fortune. He got $60 a month, had his afternoons free, could study to his heart's content the varied bird life of West Feliciana...
...with twelve color plates, presents a romantic portrait of its hero with most emphasis on his picturesque frontier experiences, his difficulties in England and France, little emphasis on his harsh discouragements. Its high point deals with Audubon's awakening ambitions in the South. The dramatic bird life of Louisiana, where adroit and playful mockingbirds chase dogs and torment cats, while sparrows look on in excitement', enchanted Audubon. There he conceived his great and precious folios of the Birds of America that are now collectors' rarities valued at $10,000. He painted woodpeckers, flycatchers, studied the chuck-will...