Word: remus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Julian LaRose Harris had the perfect entree to Southern journalism as the son of Joel Chandler ("Uncle Remus") Harris. He cashed in on it so brilliantly that at 23 he was managing editor of Henry Grady's Atlanta Constitution...
...Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, sponsor of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary's route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry...
...Version Sirs: "It's great to be a Georgian," despite even TIME'S publicizing Erskine Caldwell's crackpot version of conditions in the Empire State of the South. Yanks! He gets paid to write that tomfoolery and the paragraph about the two children playing Romulus and Remus to a "dry-teated" hound is tops in the Uncle Tom's Cabin type of journalism...
...Fascist Italy's ladder of military organizations for males from 8 to 21, Benito Mussolini last week added a bottom rung for moppets between 6 and 8. Estimated enrollment: 1,500,000. Name: "Sons of the Wolf.'' The mythical founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, were sons of War God Mars. They were suckled by a kindly she-wolf and fed by a woodpecker. Mussolini plans no "Sons of the Woodpecker...
Roark Bradford has gone the late Joel Chandler Harris one better. Harris' classic Uncle Remus showed the Negro as storyteller, at one remove from his own concerns; in Bradford's tales Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit appear in their own black skins, without disguise. Negrophiles and educated Negroes may object that Author Bradford simplifies too much, sentimentalizes too often, but plain readers like his stories. Marc Connelley's The Green Pastures, founded on Bradford's first book, Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, was the Broadway hit of 1930, won the Pulitzer Prize that...