Word: southwind
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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These Southerners have all spent years reporting specific problems of the South. Clark Porteous, our Memphis stringer and top reporter for the Press-Scimitar, is a New Orleans-born grandson of a Confederate artilleryman, a Nieman Fellow (1937) and author of Southwind Blows, a novel about a Mississippi lynching. "The book showed the horror of lynching," says Porteous, "but it also tried to show all the spokes of the wheel, to tell the complexity of the South's traditional problem." Porteous considers himself a part of "the South's new generation"; he is pleased, but far from satisfied...
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