Word: tenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mournful song by a Tin Pan Alley hack. "The Casey Jones song has haunted my whole life since the beginning of the century," she once said. Memphis railroaders were known to fight with strangers who sang the slanderous lines. For a while, the ballad was banned in Jackson, Tenn., where Janie Jones lived out the long, lean years. With the help of a ghost writer, she tried to clear herself in a new version of the song: "My Casey, Husband Casey, who meant the world...
Died. Janie Brady Jones, 92, widow of John Luther ("Casey'') Jones, railroad engineer made immortal by a folk song; following a stroke; in Jackson, Tenn. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Home 10 Singleton, Thomas '61 B 6.1 190 Kenilworth, Ill. 11 Feldhaus, Dan '60 B 6.1 180 Cincinnati, Ohio 12 La Vallie, Arthur '60 B 6.2 178 River Grove, Ill. 14 Kugler, Andy '60 B 5.10 163 Kansas City, Mo. 15 Mallory, Barton '61 B 6.0 170 Memphis, Tenn. 20 Sigal, Richard '60 B 5.11 178 W. Hartford, Conn. 21 Kangas, Nick '60 B 5.9 165 Chicago, Ill. 23 Creamer, Michael '61 B 5.11 165 Birmingham, Ala. 24 Curran, Michael '61 B 5.11 170 W. Hartford, Conn. 30 Winkler, Richard '60 B 6.0 180 Hinsdale, Ill. 31 Hard...
...third function of a newsmagazine is to get read. As every reader knows, TIME circulates in almost every country in the world. Reader Martin L. Bartling Jr., a Knoxville (Tenn.) housebuilder, had this global fact impressed on him in a way that astounded him-as well as the Knoxville post office. Bartling is the builder of the $13,500 model home, sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders, that TIME told about in BUSINESS in the Oct. 27 issue. Hardly had the magazine reached subscribers when the mail began to pour in-from 49 states, the Virgin Islands...
White Supremacist John Kasper, 29, whose unpopularity in the North is exceeded only by his unpopularity in the South, was still a loser. Three months out of jail (for riot agitation in Clinton, Tenn. in 1956), rickety John was given a six-month stretch at Nashville's Davidson County Workhouse, after an all-male, all-white jury convicted him of riot agitation...