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Surveying this new integrity pitch, the Macon News concluded in an editorial: "The miracle is that everyone who remembers the Griffin administration's shenanigans didn't fall right down laughing ... In some far-off limbo where old politicians go when they die, Jim Curley, the ex-mayor of Boston who was once elected while serving a jail sentence, must have nodded his head in admiration at the colossal gall of Marvin Griffin...
...account. In Texas-where Negro registration has increased from 33,000 to 300,000 in 20 years-the race issue is dead in statewide elections, and in this onetime Confederate state both candidates for governor this fall are taking a moderate line on civil rights. In Atlanta, Savannah and Macon, Ga., tightly organized Negro voters' leagues form a powerful coalition with moderate "uptown whites...
...Where the Boys Are, with Brigid Bazlen in The Honeymoon Machine, and in Bob Hope's Bachelor in Paradise, scheduled for release in November. While at Lamar High School in Houston, Paula sold a poem to the Atlantic Monthly, went on to Virginia's Auntie Bellum Randolph-Macon College, became something of a campus rebel ("They cling to a tradition that doesn't exist"), protested against her election to exclusive Pi Phi by announcing: "I don't want any girl to be my sister or mother." Later, at Northwestern's famed acting school, Paula impressed...
...World Wars, the skies were filled with flying sausages. The great Graf Zeppelin cruised over the Arctic Circle and around the world, traveling more than a million miles before it was decommissioned in 1937. But after three disasters, when the U.S. Navy's dirigibles Shenandoah, Akron and Macon were wrecked with a total loss of 83 lives, the U.S. abandoned its rigid-airship program. The spectacular explosion of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst in 1937 put a final end to the dream of Zeppelin...
...missionaries, John Morrison Birch was born in Landour, India, May 28, 1918. He was raised in Macon, Ga., graduated from Mercer University (where he belonged to a group that raised unproven heresy charges against some of the professors), became a fundamentalist Baptist missionary in China. During World War II he joined a U.S. Army intelligence unit in China, served with the rank of captain. Ten days after the Japanese surrender in 1945, he was killed by a band of Chinese Communist guerrillas. Birch Society members regard him as the first victim of the cold war. Birch's parents...