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...titles published in the last six months, only five managed to crowd out these old favorites. Last month, as Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends dropped far down on most lists, it looked as if the newer books were coming into their own, with C. Vann Woodward's Tom Watson reported as a best-seller in Atlanta, Holy Old Mackinaw a leader on the West Coast, Lewis Mumford's The Culture of Cities popular in the East, and Einstein & Infeld's The Evolution of Physics selling widely (3,000 in its first week) all over...
...WATSON: AGRARIAN REBEL-C. Vann Woodward-Macmillan...
Last week Professor C. Vann Woodward analyzed these two protesting movements in a long (518 pages), meaty biography. Toombs's story was simpler and more heroic; Watson's was incredibly confused. For 30 years he was a hero to hard pressed Georgia dirt farmers; The Thomas E. Watson Song is still sung in the Georgia back country. Debs admired Watson, Bryan feared...
...Another black man who made news last week was Robert L. Vann, publisher of the Pittsburgh Courier, graduate of the Pittsburgh Law School. Publisher Vann broke away from the traditional Republicanism of his race to support Franklin Roosevelt last year. For his political services he was appointed a special assistant to Attorney General Cummings in charge of the Department of Justice's claims division. No Democratic precedent could be found for this appointment...
...Carter '81, A. W. Huguley 81, C. A. Snelling '81, Stanton Whitney '84, T. N. Lawler 21, G. G. Hartridge '82, A. W. Sherman '84, W. W. Boyd '88, and E. G. Pugh '88. Forwards: W. D. Carter '81, R. K. Farris 2G.R., J. A. Poffer '84, W. VanN. Jones '82, Bruce Elmore '84 (captain), J. N. Trainer '81. H. P. Schwyser '84, G. H. Conant '88, P. W. Dockery II, and R. W. Straus...