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...Delta, the offspring of a crop-dusting outfit, has patiently mined the minor metropolises of the South for 42 years. It has eleven flights a day, for example, between Atlanta and Augusta, Ga. The airline's success has paralleled the rapid growth of the South. Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport has become the third busiest commercial airport in the world-after Chicago's O'Hare and the Los Angeles International Airport-and much of the traffic belongs to Delta...
...your obituary of our beloved Mayor Emeritus William B. Hartsfield [March 8] you stated, "After he retired in 1962, Atlanta named only two things after him (a gorilla and an incinerator)." During his lifetime, Mayor Emeritus Hartsfield consistently refused to allow the city to honor him in some substantive way. Now, however, the nation's fourth busiest airport is called the William B. Hartsfield Atlanta Airport...
Died. William B. Hartsfield, 80, former mayor of Atlanta, whose 231 years in office are said to be a U.S. record for service in a major city and produced the title "mayor emeritus"; of a heart attack; in Atlanta. Following an untraditional policy of racial moderation, Hartsfield guided his city through turbulent years of integration in the 1950s with the slogan "Atlanta is a city too busy to hate." After he retired in 1962, Atlanta named only two things after him (a gorilla and an incinerator), but Atlantans recognized that he had influenced the city's development more than...
...vote-53,187 to Smith's 21,153. And despite Smith's civil rights grandstanding, Allen won an overwhelming majority of the Negro vote. The small turnout bothered At lanta's political hierarchy not at all. It was, mused former (for 26 years) Mayor William B. Hartsfield, "indicative of a satisfied citizenry...
Then to the rescue came Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. and, more particularly, longtime (1937-61) former Mayor William Hartsfield, who took to the telephone to round up support for the dinner. "I had to do a little selling job," said Hartsfield. "I reminded them that the whole town gave Bobby Jones a parade when he won the four golf titles, and that they had turned out for Dot Kirby and, 35 years earlier, for Alexa Stirling when each won the women's national golf championship. I reminded them that they gave a big welcome to Atlanta...