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Blow The Man Down. In the State Department's musty, desk-crowded, press room two dozen newshawks gathered, waiting for Secretary Hull's daily press conference. Subject: ships again-this time the U.S. seizure of Axis ships in American waters. There was delay. One newsman growled, as the...
Forest Ranger Walter Arthur Woody, a broad-faced, broad-shouldered, broad-beamed 225-pounder, known as "The Ranger" to every Georgia mountaineer.
But this, thought local men, was too much money for women to handle. After 1921 they began to take over the industry. One of the first was a young Georgian named Burl ("Chickenhawk'') Judson Bandy, now a 52-year-old, bullet-headed bedspread tycoon who flies his own...
Mary Shaw was a mountaineer's daughter who went away to college, came back to Deer Lick to teach school and be murdered. The scandal that came out shook even the Sheriff. Solution: as simple as basket weave.
Fifteen years later, in Caney Valley, a 16-mile-long, rock-rimmed gorge, seven miles from Hindman, Mountaineer Humpty Joab spoke a similar piece. The woman who heard him was Mrs. Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, Boston socialite, author, magazine writer, newspaper editor, ardent suffragette and freethinker. She had fled to...