Word: oles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faulkner's niece Dean Wells and her husband Larry admire Willie Morris. Morris had wanted to come back to Mississippi, no longer felt at home in his native Yazoo City, Miss., and wanted to teach at Ole Miss. It was Larry Wells who made this possible, rounding up extra money from businessmen around the state so that the university's English department could afford to take on Morris as writer-in-residence. He had even wheedled $5,000 out of the Ole Miss journalism department...
DIED. Marty Robbins, 57, Grand Ole Opry pop country singer, who wrote more than 500 tunes about gunfighters, unrequited love and even occasionally the constancy of women, including the million-copy-selling hits El Paso and A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation; of a heart attack; in Nashville...
Here is what Red Stovall has: a numerous family whose farm is turning to dust, an inexplicable Lincoln convertible, a guitar, an invitation to audition for the Grand Ole Opry and a case of tuberculosis teetering on the brink of the terminal...
Brewer Centerfielder Gorman Thomas set a similarly down-home tone for Milwaukee when he solemnly called the World Series "the Grand Ole Opry of baseball," a middle-of-the-country jamboree. It started out as a tale of two catchers. Ted Simmons, whom Cardinal Manager Whitey Herzog had bravely traded to Milwaukee in 1980, homered in each of the first two games that the teams split in St. Louis. Darrell Porter, Herzog's former catcher at Kansas City whom he had signed to a fiveyear, $3.5 million contract as a free agent, had the decisive hit in Game...
...black administrator in a major Midwestern university, I want to emphasize the words of Allison Brown in her editorial for the Ole Miss magazine. The present white and black college students are making sincere efforts to share experiences and not accentuate their differences. Let's not dwell on the past. The future is going to be better...