Word: hammonds
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Purple Prose. The man who made LIFE was a Southerner, born at Redcliffe, the Beech Island, S.C., plantation built by his great-grandfather, onetime South Carolina Governor and U.S. Senator James Henry ("Cotton Is King") Hammond. Billings dropped out of Harvard to drive an ammunition truck for the French army in World War I, then became a reporter for the Bridgeport, Conn., Telegram. He was fired, he recalled, for "writing too goddam much purple prose," and went to the old Brooklyn Eagle as Washington correspondent. Luce hired him in 1928 as TIME'S capital stringer to succeed...
...Mason Hammond, a retired Latin professor, enjoys Morning Prayers too--a great deal, more than Crooks himself. But the pleasure Hammond gets out of Morning Prayers seems to grow when other people are there, and he was clearly glad that morning to see Crooks, who sometimes goes to prayers and sometimes does not. "Good morning, Tomasso." Hammond told Crooks as the services ended...
Crooks swept up his paper bag, smiled, and said he was fine, perhaps thinking as he did that if it were not for Hammond there might not even have been Morning Prayers that morning. Last summer Crooks cancelled the prayers because so few people attended, but Hammond and others for whom the prayers had been a way of life for years protested gently and Crooks reinstated them. It was probably all for the better. Crooks enjoys the prayers himself, after all; one morning each summer he leads them himself...
After leaving Hammond, Crooks walked across the Yard to Matthews Hall, where he dropped off his paper bag, which contained two zucchini squash from his garden, at the office of the coordinator of the Health Careers Summer Program. Then he stopped in at Lehman Hall for a minute to borrow a morning Globe from Eddie Burke, the superintendent of Dudley House, where Crooks used to be master. He took the Globe into the Dudley Senior Common Room and quickly scanned it for a review of the previous night's Summer School concert; no dice. Walking out, Crooks called to Burke...
While the oil surge is an economic bonanza, many Alaskans argue that it is also an environmental and social disaster. Says Republican Governor Jay S. Hammond, a former bush guide: "We can't preserve Alaska as we know it, we're going to have to lose some freedoms and qualities of life here." The boom is bringing to the last frontier urban blight, soaring prices, traffic jams, housing shortages and short tempers...