Word: macon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, revealed that the airship ZRS-5 abuilding, sister ship of the Akron, will be named the Macon. His reasons: "It is a good short name of a thriving southern community, the name of a famous revolutionary general,*and it has the same number of letters as Akron. It also gives the South representation as the Akron does the Middle West and the Los Angeles the West...
Another reason that Congressman Vinson did not mention was that, as the result of reapportionment the city of Macon (pop.: 53,829) has been placed in his district, needs political cultivation by its new Representative...
Linton Perry, little Negro boy who lives on a farm south of Macon, Ga., is not smart for his eleven years. Nor can he read or write. But he can do what no other person in the U. S. and only one other (a Cuban) in the whole world, so far as is known, can do. He can pop his right eye out of his head, and draw it back into its socket. If that does not startle the beholder, he will pop out the left eye, then jerk the pair alternately in and out, like the boy & girl...
...James Allen Smith, young eye specialist who recently opened offices in Macon, discovered Linton Perry's binocular ambivalence, reported him to Medicine, last week answered queries on the case. By all tests the boy can see just as well whether either or both eyes are in or out of their sockets. But when he first learned his performance, he saw double...
...think the item should have been included in TIME that the boy who as a small child inspired the writing of "Mighty Lak a Rose," now a man of 38. was killed Sunday, Jan. 17 in an automobile crash near Macon...