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...Athens, Ga...
That debut was typical of Jordan's career, played out in the melancholy minor league towns of Davenport, Iowa; Waycross, Ga.; and Palatka, Fla. The games, Jordan notes, seemed to have a will of their own, and the will was to lose. After a long series of catastrophic starts, Jordan finally admitted that his confidence, his control and his aspirations had come to nothing. "My career was no aesthetically well-made movie," he confesses, "rising action, climax, denouement. It was a box strewn with unnumbered slides...
...eyes were black and fierce below the camouflage of little-girl bangs. They seemed curiously separate-not quite a matching pair. By the age of 13 she had reached a height of 5 ft. 8½ in., and lest the home-town folks of Columbus, Ga., think she was one of them, Lula Carson (as she was baptized) wore knee socks and tennis shoes while the other Southern teenie-belles were wearing heels. The opening lines of Carson McCullers' most famous work, The Member of the Wedding, can be read as her epitaph: "She belonged to no club...
...country town of Bluffton, Ga., robbers broke into a grocery store, lined up the four employees and executed each with a shot in the back of the head. That week five other people were killed in the rural areas of Georgia. According to a Harris poll taken in March, Southerners are more worried about crime than other Americans...
William S. Doxey Carrollton, Ga...