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Born of a "good conservative Southern Democratic family" 63 years ago, Scott was a Phi Beta Kappa at Randolph Macon College in his home state of Virginia and graduated from University of Virginia Law School. He practiced law with his uncle in Philadelphia and served for 15 years as assistant district attorney--"entirely too long for a man to be at a post like that." Disregarding his ideological legacy, he became a Republican "because they needed me more," and in 1940 was elected to the House of Representatives. He remained a Congressman continuously until 1958, except...
SMOKY MOUNTAIN BALLADS (RCA Victor). Country music before it left the hills. Reissues from the '30s by Southern Appalachian fiddlers, banjo pickers and balladeers like Uncle Dave Macon, the Carter Family, and Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers...
...Little Brother." Bom March 23, 1918, in Jolly, Texas, Walter Jenkins was the youngest of six children of a farmer. He grew up in nearby Wichita Falls. "Walter was the baby of the family, and they all doted on him," recalls Mrs. Macon Boddy, a rancher's wife who went to high school with Jenkins and used to date his older brother Bill, a veteran FBI agent now stationed in Amarillo, Texas. "We called him 'Little Brother.' He was a wonderful person, and a sort of child genius in school...
...Speaker ordered that the clock be stopped, a tried-and-true parliamentary move. Opponents of redistricting were in a frenzy. Macon's Representative Denmark Groover had a hasty thought: if there is no clock, it can't be stopped...
Since last summer, Judge Johnson has been involved with the school desegregation struggle in Macon County. He ordered a dozen Negro students admitted to all-white Tuskegee High School last September; but segregationists organized a boycott, and a private school was set up for the white students. In January, Alabama's Governor George C. Wallace had Tuskegee High closed down as uneconomical-there were 13 teachers for twelve pupils. Judge Johnson promptly assigned the Negro students to the county's other two white high schools-six to each. One school capitulated, but at Macon County High in Notasulga...