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...quest began at precisely one second past midnight on Jan. 1, 1979, when he spotted a barn owl in Florida City, Fla. His mission, admittedly, was in part a wild goose chase, but it was a snowy plover chase and a glossy ibis chase as well. For James Vardaman, 58, had decided that he would spend 1979-from New Year's Day to New Year's Eve-trying to become the first person to sight 700 different species of birds in North America within one year. "Hot damn!" he remembers saying when he thought of the idea. "That...
...owner of a timber management firm in Jackson, Miss., Vardaman consulted ornithologists for the best birding areas around the U.S. He hired local guides to point out species to him. On one memorable January day near Point Reyes, Calif., Vardaman sighted 111 different varieties. Every two weeks he mailed out a newsletter to 1,150 "birders," as the devotees call themselves, asking them to call him collect with news of rare species in their regions ("Ask for Birdman"). He hired planes and boats and bushwacked through the woods of northern Minnesota. He flew to Alaska four times and spent...
This new populism is not the demagogy of a Bilbo or a Vardaman who used the black man as well as Wall Street as their whipping boys. Vardaman, often spoken of as the "Negro-cussin' Vardaman" and the "Great White Chief," dressed himself completely in white--white suit, white shit, white tie, white hat and white shoes, symbolical of white supremacy, as well as set himself up as the champion of the farmer against predatory bankers and businessmen whom he saw as locusts devouring the farmer. Finch, however, won over 80 per cent of the black vote in his gubernatorial...
...that something was amiss with the world he grew up in after he came back to Greenville from an idyllic education at Sewanee, in Europe and at Harvard Law School. His father, LeRoy Percy, ran for re-election as a U.S. senator and lost to the notorious James K. Vardaman, an archetypal Southern cracker, in a bitter campaign; the defeat sent the Percys scurrying off to Europe to lick their wounds...
...Washington, scrappy James K. Vardaman Jr., 64, St. Louis banker who fought with the Navy at Sicily and Okinawa in World War II and ended his active service as Naval Aide (with the rank of commodore) to Crony Harry Truman, submitted his resignation as one of the seven members of the Federal Reserve Board, after more than twelve years' service. One reason: poor health...