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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slightly by a Mississippi accent. Then he politely answered questions about such matters as the murky origins of his stories. He told of drinking corn likker for breakfast with "those unhuman people who live between the Mississippi and the levee." He once frankly admitted that his writing methods were often haphazard because "when the characters come alive, all the writer has to do is jog along with his notebook and record what they...
...preached so eloquently and graphically of the horrors of hell-fire.and brimstone that the wayward among his hearers found the prospect an unbearable stress, says Dr. Sargant. He quotes Wesley as describing meeting after meeting at which the penitent burst into tears, cried aloud, sweated profusely, shook all over, and often fell into stuporous states. This final stage seemed to fit both Pavlovian theory and modern psychiatric observation-that a patient usually collapses exhausted after a soul-wringing catharsis which is achieved by reliving an emotionally damaging experience...
Most of the country singers hailing out of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry expect to peddle their wares to the corn belt.and let the pop world go by. Although the kind of music they sing on the granddaddy of the country radio shows has often been taken over by pop singers and made into hits (Tennessee Waltz, You Are My Sunshine), few country singers have made the pop charts on their own. But in the wake of Elvis Presley (not considered genuine country by the connoisseurs), two Nashville favorites have gone to the fore in the pop world...
...bank once more proved was that, barring police-state controls, farmers will always outsmart bureaucrats. This year, for example, most farmers gave the soil bank their poorest acres, keeping their best for their price-supported crops. This was legal, if the payment reflected the poor quality of the land. Often it did not. Many farmers plowed up pastureland and planted crops, offsetting any production cutback...
...year bonanza. Benson did not v/ant to begin the bank until 1957, but Congress, its eyes on November, ordered him to start dishing out the millions in 1956. The result was that the Government paid out some $260 million last year to farmers to take land out of production often after farmers had already tried to grow a crop on it and failed, either through natural causes such as drought, hailstorms or insect infestation, or by sheer neglect. To nobody's surprise, 1956 farm production set new records...