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North Carolina last year was responsible for three of the Crimson's four defeats, and several members of that undefeated Tarheel squad are back. Among the returnees are Captain Herb Browne, Tom Bradford, Don Thompson, and Bob Payne. Browne and Bradford were the 1953 doubles champions of the powerful Southern Conference...
...Infant of Prague Church on North Carolina's east coast. The church itself had been converted from a nightclub called "The Bucket of Blood," and its members were all marines from Camp Lejeune five miles away or civilians attached to the base; there was not a single Tarheel Catholic in the parish...
...hammock by a mountain stream, a TV set, and a log fence to keep out nosy tourists. But the Rev. William Franklin Graham is at his happiest when he is at his busiest and loneliest: on the platform in a vast amphitheater, or drawling into a mike the Tarheel tag line to his ABC broadcast, "May the Lord bless you real good...
...Klan came over the border of North Carolina on a hot July night in 1950. A column of 30-odd cars carried the Ku Kluxers through tobacco, cotton, peanut and sweet potato fields, then drove slowly along the streets of Tabor City (pop. 2,028), a sleepy Tarheel town that likes to call itself the "yam capital of the world...
...boss, 2) pay him $50,000 a year, 3) sell him 5% to 10% of the paper's stock at a "fair" price. The deal was sealed so secretly that not even Observer editors knew it until they were handed the story to run. If they had any Tarheel resentment at an outlander moving in, they covered it with Southern tactfulness: "Mr. Nicholson," said the Observer story, "was born in Richmond, Ind. [where] his ancestors migrated from North Carolina during the early part of the last century...