Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obituary in your Milestones column [Oct 25] about my father, although not intentionally so, I am sure, is cruelly misleading. Your phrase, "born into grinding poverty in the Mississippi backwoods," connotes a "Tobacco Road" environment. Like most formerly affluent Southern families, following the Civil War, his was impoverished financially, but his were the riches of the influence of a Spartan but cultured mother and a cherished heritage from his father, a Confederate cavalry officer. Your statement that he "roared around town yelling 'Hiya, boy' " is simply not true. He was not uncouth, as suggested, but very much...
What Profit? Under the contract, the Government will pay the Mississippi Valley Generating Co. (formed by Dixon-Yates to build the proposed plant) $519 million for power in the next 25 years. Every penny has been calculated to represent estimated costs: $243 million for coal, $76 million for amortization of debt, $62 million for labor, maintenance, insurance and supplies, $61 million for taxes, $58 million for interest on debt, $12 million for return on the company's equity and $7,000,000 for replacements...
...scheme. Bizet wrote French romantic music that, as many critics feel, is hardly even suitable to its original Spanish subject. With back-country U.S. Negroes, it goes about as well as pink champagne at a hoedown. On top of this, Oscar Hammerstein II dipped his big toe in the Mississippi mud and wrote some lyrics that should be thrown back to the catfish. Fortunately, he also supplied a book that is considerably better than the original libretto, with a shift of the plot to Jacksonville, Fla., and into high colloquial gear...
Coughlin shows us the young author as the townspeople of Oxford, Mississippi saw him in the years following the first world war. Not much of a success at anything, borrowing money from his friends and doing odd jobs of carpentry to live, he wandered through the streets silently, sometimes barefootel, and stood musing for hours in front of the old curthouse, a proud, shabby questionmark...
Died. Edward Hull Crump, 80, since 1909 the iron-fisted boss of Memphis and, for two decades, of the whole state of Tennessee; of a heart ailment; in Memphis. Born into grinding poverty in the Mississippi backwoods of carpetbagger days, foxy Ed Crump got control of Memphis' Shelby County when he was elected mayor at 35, moved into state politics in the '205. From 1930 (when the stock-market crash removed his last rival) until Estes Kefauver's successful insurrection in 1948, he ruled Tennessee politics with a benevolent but despotic grip, faithfully delivered, election...