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...raced to combat with rebel yells and a battery of 105-mm. inkpots. Companies of cartoonists fired from sniper positions at the top of editorial pages, while the columnists, of course, made up the fifth column. SOUTHERN BLOOD BOILS! screamed the Jackson, Miss. News. SACRILEGE! shouted Tennessee's Kingsport Times. "President Eisenhower," sputtered the Shelby, N.C. Star, "must have lost his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gettysburg Refought | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Shoals gets $500 a month to play first base and manage the team. Reyes makes $275 at third. Many a Kingsport fan comes out to the ball game just to see Reyes lumber up to the plate, shift his cud of tobacco, wag his massive hindquarters at the crowd and growl at the catcher. The crowd likes the volatile Cubans, too; sometimes one of them steals a base, not because the situation warrants it, but simply because he is in the mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bushes | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Barking Dog. The references to espionage in the current investigation are not Jenkins' first brush with that subject. 'In 1950 he was appointed by a federal judge to defend Alfred Dean Slack, who was accused of delivering secret information from the Holston Ordnance Works at Kingsport, Tenn. to a Communist agent. On advice of counsel, Slack pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 15 years. Then he appealed, contending that Jenkins had not advised him properly. The Circuit Court, ruling that Jenkins had done his job well, gave him an unusual accolade. Said the opinion: " [Jenkins] has earned and enjoys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Terror of Tellico Plains | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Yesterday, Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, outlined the ideas of Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island and an early advocate of religious freedom in America. Handlin was joined by William F. Freehoff Jr., editor of the Kingsport, Tenn., "News," Joseph Givando, reporter for the Denver "Post," A. G. Ivey, associate editor of the WinstonSalein "Sentinel," and John J. Steele, United Press correspondent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Institute Has Fifth Birthday; Niemans Discuss 'American Ideas' | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

LEWIS H. LANCASTER JR. Kingsport, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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