Word: odum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council, headed by Chapel Hill's Howard W. Odum and Fisk University's Charles S. Johnson, declared...
Talker. In Marianna, Fla., Mamie Ruth Odum, en route by bus to marry an Air Corps lieutenant in Tampa, met a private who told her: "Give me until tomorrow noon and I'll talk you into marrying me instead...
When Georgia-born Sociologist Odum began collecting facts at North Carolina 22 years ago, many Southerners took umbrage at any suggestion for improvement of the South's backward economy. Dr. Odum made no suggestions; he just went on laboriously piling up his facts. He turned up some whopping ones: e.g., with much of the richest soil in the U.S., the Southeast spent 7% of its gross income for commercial fertilizer, almost as much as it spent on education (it bought two-thirds of all the fertilizer used in the nation). Reason: its cash-crop, soil-consuming system (cotton...
Beside the Bible. Dr. Odum's fact-gathering eventually began to move mountains. Thousands of young Southerners went to Chapel Hill to study with him, then went forth to help him collect more facts. Today Odum disciples-teachers, preachers, researchers, government officials, newspapermen, businessmen-are at work in nearly every Southern county...
...copy stands beside the Bible in many a local sheriff's office. It inspired at least ten other major books (e.g., Gerald Johnson's The Wasted Land). It also won the distinction of being banned by Georgia's gallus-snapping Governor Eugene Talmadge. Thanks to Dr. Odum, Southerners talk frankly and learnedly about once unmentionable taboos: hookworm, poverty, farm tenancy, poor schools...