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Guns & Corn Pone...
GREAT STORY ON MY SURE SHOT SISTER-IN-LAW BETTY HUTTON . . . HOWEVER, I HAVE INSTRUCTED MY SECONDS TO CALL ON TIME'S EDITORS . . USE OF THE NINE-YEAR-OLD CORN PONE PICTURE OF SISTER MARION, WHO IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, WAS A MISTAKE THAT CAN ONLY BE ERASED ON THE FIELD OF HONOR...
Dizzy's salary back in 1933, when he won 20 games for the Cardinals, was $3,000. For his corn-pone idiom and homespun description of doings at the Yankee Stadium this summer he will get $30,000. "Which is more than I ever made pitchin' baseballs," he says thoughtfully...
...long way from his poverty-ridden Augusta (Ga.) boyhood. "We used to work several months to make enough for a pair of shoes," he says, "and had them half-soled so many times your foot was an inch off the ground." Nourished on hard-won sow belly and corn pone, he swept up in cotton mills, ran errands, jerked sodas and sold papers until he caught the eye of Clarence Saunders, ex-Piggly Wiggly king. When Saunders went broke in 1931, Crouch was in Oakland, Calif, running 44 of his stores...
Spit V Image. But Hummon and Harris were undismayed. They sent a reassuring message to the Atlanta "interests" who had backed Old Gene and to the country "wool hat" boys, who had elected him. The message: Hummon was just like his pappy. He chewed corn pone, had Old Gene's cowlick, and stood foursquare for white supremacy and the white primary...