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Next Case? In Macon, Mo., Charles Reams, Civil Aeronautics Administration representative, flew in to investigate a plane crash, escaped unhurt when he wrecked his own plane on Banding...
...Stanky stuck it out through eight years in the minors. Three of them, happily, were spent under Manager Milton Stock, now a Pittsburgh Pirates coach, who was part owner of the Macon, Ga. team in the Sally (South Atlantic) League. Stanky recalls his minor-league experience as an unending series of brawls (35 fist fights) and rows with umpires ("I got tossed out of 15 or 20 games a year"). Stock, Stanky now says, "taught me to control my temper." This may be giving Stock too much credit, but he did teach Stanky that being thrown out of games hurts...
...decided that he wanted to be both teacher and minister in one. "When I left Virginia," says he, "I had a suitcase full of books on the teaching of religion and how it was learned." What he learned from those books, he carried wherever he went-from Macon, Ga. to St. Louis, where he headed the Episcopal education center, and finally to Atlanta...
...Among the more elderly: Randolph-Macon Woman's College, chartered 1830; Mount Holyoke, 1836; Wesleyan College (Macon...
...visiting reporter for the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, with a great show of innocence and a grits-and-gravy drawl, said: "Mr. President, this is my first conference. My impression about you is that you look a lot younger than I thought you did." The President rocked back on his heels and let out a real belly laugh. The Southerner pressed his advantage quickly, "Would you say you are in better shape now than when you first became President...