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Southern Progress, based in Birmingham, was founded in 1886, when L.L. Polk, a farmer and Confederate Civil War veteran, started Progressive Farmer as a crusading vehicle to improve Southern agriculture and the lot of growers. The magazine now reaches 573,000 subscribers in the South and Midwest and covers a wide range of topics, from farm production to the impact of foreign policy on agriculture. Southern Living was launched in 1966 as a response to growing urbanization in its area. It circulates primarily in 18 states from Florida to New Mexico and has become the largest regional home-service magazine...
...Schlesinger ratings, Lincoln was voted our best President. F.D.R. moved to second place, and Washington fell to third. Also rated as great: Jefferson, who supplanted Wilson in the top four. Rated as near great: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Jackson, Truman. Above average: John Adams, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Polk, Kennedy, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Cleveland. Average: McKinley, Taft, Van Buren, Hoover, Hayes, Arthur, Ford...
...Toughest on Hoover, for instance, were those under 40 and easiest were those over 65, the very children of the Depression so often blamed on Hoover. Women historians (only 59 were tabulated) were generally harsher in judging Presidents than the men. For whatever reasons, they were particularly down on Polk and Washington. They rated Carter, L.B.J., Grant and Kennedy higher than...
...Polk said the letter came to the United States from London by way of New York, where it has been circulating for about two months. He added that the letter has been at Harvard for the past four weeks...
...Polk said he had consulted friends in low school who told him this game was legal...