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...draw up a charter for racial cooperation. The men and women who attended them make up a roster of first-rate Southern leaders. Among them: Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, Field Secretary, Commission on Interracial Cooperation; President Rufus E. Clement, Atlanta University; President Mordecai Johnson, Howard University; Editor Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution; Bishop Arthur J. Moore, Atlanta; President Frederick D. Patterson, Tuskegee Institute...
...strict truth about carnivorous plants (The Carnivorous Plants; Chronica Botanica Co., Waltham, Mass; $6) is the business of McGill University's Emeritus Professor of Botany Francis Ernest Lloyd. After twelve years' work, field trips in South Africa, Australasia and North America, he has published the first comprehensive treatise on the subject since Charles Darwin's Insectivorous Plants...
...archaic fifth-floor office a Negro named Josh fits smoothly into Editor McGill's inefficient routine: he totes Coca-Cola and coffee, informs telephone callers: "Mr. McGill ain't here...
Though the Constitution has one of the South's best photographers, it has no picture editor. Editor McGill hammers hard on the big stories, but still has not hired a police reporter. The Constitution has not had a complete staff in the memory of Atlanta's oldest living newsmen. It loses good reporters who "cannot live on hope forever." Nobody seems to care that the rival Journal (bought by James W. Cox in 1939) beats it in circulation and news coverage. But the Constitution has upped circulation 40%, to its alltime high of 136,000 daily...
Born on a Tennessee farm of Scotch-Welsh parents, McGill worked his way through Vanderbilt University (where he played star tackle and belonged to the famed literary group of "Fugitives"), took time out to fight with the Marines in World War I. At political odds with the chancellor, he left shortly before the end of his senior year, went to the Nashville Banner as sports editor under his fellow classman (now publisher) James Geddes Stahlman. He originated a popular, Will Rogerish column called I'm the Gink, branched into political writing with prodigious energy. Shortly after going...