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Loud-mouthed Kenneth McKellar had been roaring against businesslike, liberal-minded TVAman Lilienthal for several years, had carried on a patronage feud with him with all the passion of a home-state mountaineer. But last week McKellar discovered that, despite his new power in the Senate, he had been boxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Facts of Life | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Crushed by Manners' death in 1928, Laurette Taylor threw over the theater and "went on what, I suppose, was the longest wake in history." When the wake ended, Actress Taylor (who is 61) was well on in middle age, very choosy-and good roles for her did not grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Half fey, half folksy, the play is based on the Southern mountaineer (not the Old English) ballad of Barbara Allen. For love of high-stepping young Barbara (Carol Stone), a witch boy in the Great Smokies (Richard Hart) has a Conjur Woman make him human. But he can remain so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 26, 1945 | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Said one mountaineer: "Shorely must be aworkin' fer the Lord fer ye hain't beggin' fer money nor atalkin' denomination."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Walkin Preacher | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Everybody gets physical exercise by helping to run a 146-acre college farm. Recently the college opened on the campus a little mica mine from which the students are producing for the U.S. Government. The students and faculty built Black Mountain's only notable building, the local stone-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Black Mountain's Tenth | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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