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...vacuum provided by his competitors, Press Editor George Carmack, 53, a 6-ft. 4-in. Tennessean who rose through the Scripps-Howard chain, moves with the enthusiasm of a newsman who would rather be forthright than first. Carmack's small staff cannot hope to outproduce the Post and the Chronicle, and the paper frequently relies on sheer sensationalism. But with an independence of spirit rare in a chain newspaper, rarer still in Houston, the third-ranking Houston Press has clearly demonstrated that last is not necessarily least...
...Kefauver did not need Negro support to win. He got an overwhelming majority of white votes, collecting them from prosperous suburbs of Memphis and Nashville, as well as from poor rural hamlets and the east Tennessee hills, where Republicans crossed over to vote for him. Editorialized the Nashville Tennessean: "Once again, Tennesseans have proved that the majority accepts the moderate approach to vexing racial problems which confront not only the South, but the nation...
...problem of geography is more serious. If, in the vicissitudes of politics, he should be nominated and elected this year, Lyndon Johnson would be the first Southerner to become President since Andrew Johnson (no kin) was inaugurated in 1865. And since Andrew Johnson, an excommunicated Tennessean, lost his credentials as a Southerner by remaining loyal to the Union during the Civil War, Lyndon Johnson would in fact be the first bona fide Southerner in the White House in 110 years, since the brief (16 months) administration of Louisiana's Zachary Taylor.* In his efforts to escape the presidential segregation...
...Wanted. The Amazon's new awakening is beset with old problems. Tennessean Ronald Richardson, now 46, who after World War II duty in Belém stayed on to set up a lumber mill outside the town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...
Born in Middlesboro, Kentucky--"just north of the Cumberland Gap and Daniel Boone country"--Price attended Vanderbilt University, majoring in history and political science and graduating in 1931. After a year off on the Nashville Tennessean, he continued his studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford...