Photograph of the closing of the Van Hook Golf Course. Several golfers pay tribute to Van Hook by standing in front of a hearse parked at the number one tee, which symbolized the death of the course. Featured in the Talon, vol. 58, no. 4 (Spring...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; Czech is represented by Goldilocks, and Russia is symbolized as an angry bear. The cartoon plays on the fairy tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Goldilocks/Czech is startled by the large unfriendly bear/Russia. As...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; The Legislature is symbolized by a man with an ax. A stack of logs is labeled "other problems," but he looks at a single "remap" log and says,"I'll handle it easily." At this point he is at the "start of the session."...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; A beanstalk labeled "$462.5 million from punchboards,"legitimate business take-overs,"crime-politics tie-in," and "vice" grows in a backyard. A man labeled "organized crime" sunbathes under the beanstalk while drinking...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 19, 1978 with Mr. W.S. Griffin at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Griffin was born on October 15, 1913 near Mantee, Mississippi, in Webster County. In 1936, he accepted a position as a teacher and coach...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...