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DIED. Turner Catledge, 82, newspaper reporter and editor who was managing editor and then executive editor of the New York Times from 1951 to 1968; of complications following a stroke; in New Orleans. A courtly Mississippian hired by the Times after impressing Herbert Hoover with his 1927 reporting on devastating Southern floods, Catledge was known for his scrupulous fairness. During his tenure, he increased the Times's national and foreign coverage and pressed for shortened sentences and sharpened stories. In his most debated decision, he approved publication of a report on a planned invasion of Cuba ten days before...
Twenty years ago this week, the campus of the University of Mississippi was shattered by riots protesting the admission of the first black student. TIME asked Mississippian Willie Morris, the author (North Toward Home, Terrains of the Heart) and former editor of Harper's magazine, to examine changes at Ole Miss since then...
...confronting the mob. Two people died, and scores were injured. It was the last battle of the Civil War, the last direct constitutional crisis between national and state authority. James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran, was enrolled as an Ole Miss student the next day. As a native Mississippian, I think of the lines of Yeats...
...first book, Geronimo Rex, won the Faulkner Prize and immediately set Hannah up as a hot Southern Writer. This was followed by Nightwatchmen and then by the prizewinning collection of short stories, Airships. During this time, Hannah published a record number of stories in Esquire, where the native Mississippian confused the hell out of a lot of people with stories like "Dragged Fighting From His Tomb," the story of a homosexual Confederate Soldier who butchers his way into Pennsylvania, only to turn traitor to Jeb Stuart. Or "Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet," a story about Vietnam, pro golf...
Like his songs, Steve Forbert has plenty of surprises beneath the surface. Sure, the diffident 25-year-old Mississippian has his modest ways: "I'll have a go at talking," he says, wrapping up a thuddingly difficult New York interview on the eve of his first Japan tour and third album, "but what I do is write songs and sing them." Nonetheless, inside that denim-jacketed heart, behind those covertly smiling eyes and that radical pug nose, one senses big ambition. Alive on Arrival, his heel-kicking 1978 debut, moved zealous writers to compare Forbert with classic heartland American music...