Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South. Such fiery Southerners as Fielding Lewis Wright, governor of Mississippi, forthwith raised the cry of secession-from the Democratic Party, not the nation. When President Truman urged Congress to enact his committee's recommendations into law, the outcry could be heard from Charleston to Little Rock...
Local Angle. It is Tufty's boast (among many) that "I was the only woman writer on the Dewey train in 1944" (not Counting LIFE Researcher Lee Eitingon). The trip paid off with more than news. When the train was wrecked at Castle Rock, Wash., Tufty suffered broken ribs and passed out (Westbrook Pegler passed the smelling salts). She came out of it with a $3,000 settlement, which she used to fix up her National Press Building cubicle with yellow curtains and a fancy circular desk...
...years, Florence Iva Begay, a shy, dark-eyed Navajo, had never strayed more than 100 miles from the reservation at Window Rock, Arizona. Graduating as valedictorian of her high-school class at Flagstaff, she became the first to win a new $2,000 annual scholarship for Indian girls at New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College. Florence wanted to become a doctor, so that she could go back to the reservation to help cure her people of tuberculosis and trachoma. Last week Florence was home again, without getting to New York. She had tasted white man's poison...
REMEMBRANCE ROCK (1,067 pp.)-Carl Sandburg-Harcourt, Brace...
Prayers & Freight Rates. In its broad outlines, Remembrance Rock seems the sort of book that U.S. critics have always asked for. It is an attempt to find imaginative meanings and an emotional reality in the sweep of U.S. history, to evoke that "usable past" which critics have felt might be a New World substitute for the age-old traditions and usages of Europe. No one would seem better equipped than Carl Sandburg to write it, both because of his own poetry and the historical knowledge that went into the composition of his life of Lincoln...