Word: taliaferro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Alfred Taliaferro, 63, former Walt Disney cartoonist who in 1938 conjured up a splenetic duck named Donald whose quackpot rages have delighted generations of children and earned untold millions for Disney's dominions; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Patroit coach Mike Holovak has decided to alternate his regular quarterback Mike Taliaferro with rookie signal-giver Tom Sherman. Taliaferro's five intercepted passes and two fumbles in last Sunday's disastrous 48-14 loss to the New York Jets made many observers think that Holovak would start Sherman this Sunday...
Guns, Revolvers & Clubs. Even after the Penn murder, a group of Athens rowdies traveled to nearby Taliaferro County, where they beat and shot at a one-legged Negro farmer, after halting his car on a country road. Taliaferro Sheriff Milton Moore identified Sims and Myers as two of the whites, and the jury was shown weapons seized from their cars: six sawed-off shotguns, four .38-cal. revolvers, a .22-cal. rifle, a length of heavy chain, and several wooden clubs bearing carved swastikas or the letters...
...Crawfordville, Ga. (pop. 786), the hungry wayfarer stays hungry. The town's only eating place, which used to be rather less exclusive than the Taliaferro county jail across the street, has changed its name from Liberty Café to Bonner's Private Club Inc. In Jackson, Miss., the Belmont Restaurant, long a favorite downtown luncheon spot for state officials, lawyers and businessmen, has become the Belmont Club Inc., boasts an electrically operated door, a membership committee-and the same old menu. Maylie's Restaurant, for 90 years a noontime hangout for New Orleans judges, lawyers and city...
...knoll in the middle of the town stands the old Taliaferro County courthouse, an ugly red brick building rising above a frayed lawn. The town is the birthplace of Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. A state park a hundred yards from the courthouse bears his name, and his statue stands on the lawn...