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...outdoor amphitheater at Williamsburg, Va., Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence downstage left. In Boone, N.C., Daniel Boone stalks around a stage slightly larger than an elbow of the great Catawba River. And with annual punctuality and a sound like muslin ripping, gunshots in New Mexico signal The Last Escape of Billy the Kid. Mixing fact, fiction, sentiment and gunpowder, the U.S.'s grandiose, often grandiloquent summer pageant plays provide a basic drive-in course in history for more than 5,000,000 people a year, some of whom are surprised to learn that the first De Soto...
...breakneck schedule, he contentedly remembers his three-mile walk along dirt roads to the school where Miss Dewell Marshall taught eleven grades in one room; he remembers falling asleep during the hour-long Presbyterian sermons of Preacher Greer and Preacher Walker; he remembers the fish fries on the Catawba River and the swimming hole at Uncle Henry Rhyne's. He remembers, too, the time he played hooky with a pal named Mel McQuarry. When Charlie got home, his father was waiting with a razor strop. Next morning at school, the teacher started to give him a thrashing. Says Rhyne...
...YORK, April 26--The American Assn. of University Professors today accused the University of Nevada and Catawba College, Salisbury, N.C., of unfairly firing faculty members...
...President James Knox Polk, 1818; Bandmaster James Kern ("Kay") Kyser, '28; Author Thomas Wolfe, '20 (the University is the "Old Catawba" of his Look Homeward Angel); Statesman Josephus Daniels, '85; Journalist Jonathan Worth Daniels...
Last week they defeated Catawba College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 13 to 2. Observers felt that although the pre-flight students could probably have run up a larger score, they were not well-organized...