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ROBERT MUSEMECHE (D) 3907 Colquitt, Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: TEXAS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...been black women who spurned the written word or, for that matter, any kind of regulation. The celebrated Mme. Bouligny, one of the last grandes dames of New Orleans society, had a Haitian cook who seasoned her gumbo with a voodoo prayer. "Getting directions from colored cooks," Harriet Ross Colquitt wrote in The Savannah Cookbook, "is rather like trying to write down the music to the spirituals which they sing -for all good oldtimers (and newtimers too) cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH - MODERN LIVING: A Home-Grown Elegance | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...recently spruced-up town in central Georgia's lush, goober-growing country, Plains had been without a physician since 1951, when Dr. Colquitt Logan virtually retired at 71 after having two operations for cataracts. Like 50-odd Georgia towns (and 1,450 now on record in the U.S.) listed as wanting a doctor, Plains might have gone doctorless for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Country Doctor | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Arts & Crafts. In Moultrie, Ga., accused of smuggling a hacksaw blade to prisoners in Colquitt County jail, Mrs. Ruth Lower, 18, protested: "The boys in there told me they wanted the blade to saw soup bones. I didn't know they were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 22, 1954 | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

While the youngsters sipped Cokes, the judges hastily collected 37 more heavy-caliber surprises. Diana and Colquitt went through them all (including meticulosity, syzygy, prorogue, frondesce, cincture, heliotaxis, ectogenous, meerschaum) without a slip. With everybody feeling that honor had been more than satisfied, the judges thereupon declared a draw, the first in the Bee's history. To Winners Diana and Colquitt went twin sets of prizes: $500 checks, trips to New York, gold National Bee emblems set with rubies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gnarled with a K | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

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