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...Howard Jenkins, 57, the Mundt committee's chief counsel, is known around Knoxville as the "terror of Tellico." after his home town of Tellico Plains, Tenn. Last week, when Jenkins started questioning witnesses with a deep, roaring Tennessee drawl and fixing them with a tiger-like stare, they might have felt just a bit terrified. Jenkins has a simple definition of the problem he was hired to untangle: "Apparently everybody can't be telling the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MCCARTHY V. THE ARMY: The Men and the Issues | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...four evenings a week, when the day's chores are done, they take off over the ridges to school. From Red Knob, five miles away, from Short Bark community, from Tellico Plains, where wild boar hunts are still held in the fall, they hike to the sloping green campus. In a classroom of the main college building, they sit in small groups, divided according to background and ability. Mrs. Frances Cope Murrell, the patient, even-tempered woman who does most of the teaching, moves from one group to another, coaching them through the rigors of long division, watching over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Collegiate Schoolhouse | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Last Saturday the Grand Ol' Opry turnout was swelled by a delegation from up around Tellico Plains, in the Great Smokies, on hand to hear a straight-limbed, sixth-generation mountain girl sing a song her grandpappy taught her. The girl was 23-year-old Edith Haas Padgett, famed far & wide in the hills for once having bagged a charging 400-lb. wild boar with a single rifle shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opry Night | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...game with Lawrence Academy which was called because of rain; Proctor Avon will again start on the mound. Jayvee Game With Worcester HARVARD WORCESTER Gallagher, c.f. c.f., Ask Connolly, 3b. s.s., Bates O'Brien, 1b. c., Urban Lockwood, s.s. 3b., Alex Lee, r.f. 1b., Matt Twitchell, l.f. r.f., Tellico Carr, 2b. 2b., Moulton Thom, c. l.f., Spencer Wood, p. p., Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST. JOHN'S WILL OPPOSE FRESHMAN NINE TODAY | 4/28/1934 | See Source »

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