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Dixie Dew. The 81-year-old Constitution saw its greatest days in the era of Publisher Evan Howell, famed Editor Henry Woodfin Grady, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, and Frank (Mighty Lak a Rose) Stanton. Under the late Clark Howell Sr., it also fought the Ku Klux Klan and won a Pulitzer Prize (1931) for exposing municipal graft. But the present Clark Howell and his liberal but erratic Editor Ralph McGill have let Cox & Co. take the play away. Example: while the Constitution merely deplored Herman Talmadge, the Journal campaigned aggressively against him, and Reporter George Goodwin won a Pulitzer...
Demi-Rome. It was not an easy matter to decide. The world's oldest profession could claim a long and proud history in Italy. Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded Rome, it was said, were themselves the bastards of a vestal virgin who yielded to Mars for a consideration. In 1490 a city vicar reported to the Vatican that Rome's prostitutes numbered more than "6,800, not even counting those who live in concubinage and those who, not publicly but in secret, maintain five or six women in their houses." Sixtus V (1585-90) wanted...
...Buckshot's detailed, homely communications to "Ed," which he started nine years ago, now appear regularly in seven Texas newspapers (including one in Czech) and occasionally in the Houston Post and the Houston Press. Sometimes as hard-boiled as Hammett, sometimes as folksy as Uncle Remus, the columns not only have earned him a journalistic reputation but have helped get him elected sheriff for five straight terms...
Over a Barrel. Jimmy Dobbs knew he could not depend on air traffic alone to support his restaurants. So he tricked them out in local color (his Atlanta restaurant is decorated with Uncle Remus murals and has a Negro "Uncle Remus" doorman perched on a cotton bale outside) and collected recipes from famed U.S. restaurants to lure non-travelers to his tables...
...lower lobby is devoted to the works of Joel Chandler Harris. Some of Harris' letters, manuscripts, and criticisms of his stories are exhibited, including the "Uncle Remus Stories," "Stories of Georgia," "The Story of Aaron," and "Tales of the Home Folks in Peace...