Word: tuscaloosa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been rudely invaded by the press or radio, journalism is simply bad taste in print or wired for sound. Can they do anything about it? Not much, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week. The court upheld dismissal of the suit of two sisters who had sued a Tuscaloosa radio station for digging up a story about their father's disappearance in 1905. "The right of privacy is supported by logic and the weight of authority," said the court, but in the face of "legitimate public interest" it has to give...
...Cautious. Both in Houston and in Tampa, where papaya trees withered overnight and shivering residents stood in queues two blocks long to buy kerosene for their stoves, snow fell for the first time since 1940. Tuscaloosa, Ala. had eight inches, and Meridian, Miss. had five. In Knoxville, a motorist became so enraged at the snowball-throwing of University of Tennessee students that he jumped out of his car, pistol in hand, and dared them to throw just one more. They respectfully refrained...
Disillusion. The Patchwork Time is Robert Gibbons' second novel. (First was Bright Is the Morning.) Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1915, he began to write at 18, served during the war aboard an LST in the Pacific. His work is widely praised by such Southerners as Robert Penn Warren, Erskine Caldwell and Eudora Welty, seems typical of a growing school of graceless disillusionment in fiction, too accomplished not to be taken seriously, and too narrow not to be viewed with alarm by readers who respect its talents and potential contribution...
This is another novel whose success is as predictable as next year's Democratic majority in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Screen rights to this novel of 18th Century France sold for $350,000 last May; it is the Literary Guild choice for October, and thus sure of sales in the hundreds of thousands. To these rewards, critical acclaim is not likely to be added on the same scale. Proud Destiny resembles War and Peace in the general aim of treating great events (in this case France's part in the American Revolution) in terms of the people who enact...
Passion & Variety. Alabaman Strode has an almost fanatical faith in the cultural present and future of the South. He takes great pride in the fact that all but four of his 14 students who have sold novels come from within 100 miles of Tuscaloosa...