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Barber: Knoxville, "Summer of 1915" (Eleanor Steber, soprano, with the Dumbarton Oaks Chamber Orchestra, William Strickland conducting; Columbia, I side LP). James Agee's autobiographical essay of the same name appealingly set to song; Soprano Steber, who commissioned the music, sings it beautifully. Recording: excellent...
...STRICKLAND...
...Tell Me. In Atlanta, when Holdup Victim D. M. Strickland got so jittery that he could not identify his assailants, police put Strickland in the lineup, had the two confessed gunmen pick him from the group...
Last summer, just as his plan was well under way, Bob Strickland died. But the Trust Co. carried on his program. By last week, in 100 of Georgia's 159 counties, 57 farm contractors (80% of them veterans) were helping farmers grade land, pull stumps, build terraces and ditches, spread fertilizer. Farmers soon found that the contractors could save them time and money. Example: one contractor charged only $150 to clear 20 acres of cut-over woodland in a day, a job that would have taken the farmer weeks...
Encouraged by the success of contractors like the Bells, the Trust Co. of Georgia took another step to improve Georgia agriculture. This week the bank decided to spend $25,000 a year on a Robert Strickland Memorial Agricultural Fund, to promote better farming...