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50 Years Ago...
What was happening in Chattanooga in 1960
Monday, March 21
Richard L. Moore, Jr., president of Loveman’s, Inc., has been named to the 1960 Economy in Govern-ment Committee of the National Retail Merchants Association, Alfred C. Thompson, NRMA president reported.
Tuesday, March 22
Chattanooga Bar Association honors deceased members
Members of the Chattanooga Bar Association gathered together in the County Commission Room of the Hamilton County Court House on March 8, 2010, to honor seven members who died during the preceding 12 months. Also present at the memorial service were some of the relatives of the deceased.
Miller & Martin attorney enjoying life in Chattanooga
Matthew Bell, an attorney with Miller & Martin in Chattanooga, has just two stories to tell, and although time and space separate them, they fit together like two pieces of a puzzle to describe why he enjoys working for the firm.
“At Wake Forest, the law school shared a building with the business school,” he says. “On my first day of class, the dean told us that if we wanted to make a lot of money, we were on the wrong side of the building.”
Under Analysis
Now that it is starting to look like spring, the Levison towers are sparsely populated. Filing runs to the courthouse are more apt to be made by partners this time of year. In fact, partners I haven’t seen all winter pop their heads in my office to ask if I need anything picked up from court. Or even the coffee shop. While I appreciate the help, I could do without the ghastly white arms sticking out of short sleeved shirts.
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Uncle Sid goes HD
It was a beautiful Tennessee early spring afternoon when I pulled in the long gravel driveway of Uncle Sid and Aunt Sadie’s farm. The hills behind their house this time of year are starting to show signs that full-blown spring is on its way. Maples are turning maroon in color with red buds on their limbs getting ready to bloom and other trees are starting to show signs of pastel greens, as they too are ready to come back to life once again. I love this time of the year, when new life is arriving after a cold winter, and this year was one that winter just didn’t want to give up.
Are we there yet?
In the stretch
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." – W. C. Fields
The golf cart motored us back to Central Avenue and the looming horse track across the street. We had parked the car behind a motel nearby after paying a guy the reasonable sum of ten dollars. Behind us in the cart, in the space once reserved for golf clubs, sat two older gents who were also hoping for a bit of luck that day.
I Swear
Oxymorons revisited
For two weeks, we have been reexamining oxymora, with the help of author Richard Lederer, who has written extensively on this and other humorous matters of language.
Last week, we looked at single-word oxymora, such as preposterous, sophomore, firewater and speechwriting.
What'll they dream up next?
The Windshield Wonder
My how time flies. It seems like just yesterday I was making a list of New Year’s resolutions and now the official first day of spring is upon us, and boy do I have a lot of cleaning to do.
I suppose it is way past time to put up my Christmas-candy tins and cinnamon-scented pinecones. Maybe I should box up all the winter clothes and shoes and make room for the summer garb.
Small slices of history reside in the new exhibit at Lupton Library
A letter from Mahatma Gandhi lies only a few feet away from a 1632 printing of William Shakespeare’s play “The Twelfth Night,” and beside that is a letter from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer of “Sherlock Holmes.” All these rare and historically robust items lay in full view at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s new Special Collections exhibit entitled, “Our Cabinets of Antiquarian Curiosities,” on display until June 1.
Adventure Guild focuses on “life-transforming power of adventure”
Wintry, rainy weather is no reason to lose your spirit of adventure. Don and Kim Stock, co-owners of Adventure Guild, say their company offers plenty of opportunities to become involved with the outdoors, no matter what the weather brings.
“As long as it is not dangerous or miserable, we will go out,” Don says. “There is no excuse for couch potatoes,” Kim says with a laugh.
Coin toss produces number one sales agent for Crye-Leike
Wendy Dixon became a realtor, in part, because she lost a coin toss with her husband.
“When we moved here, he was a builder and one of us was going to get our real estate license, so it pretty much defaulted to me,” Dixon said. “I ended up absolutely loving what I do and I can’t say enough, if you love what you do, your prosperity will follow.”
Local Sierra Club gets serious about environmental issues
If the mountaintop in your town was blasted off, you may start paying attention to your energy consumption, Jamie Brown, the vice chair for the local Cherokee branch of the Sierra Club, says. But, by then, it may be too late, she adds.
Mountaintop removal, which involves the clear cutting of land and the removal of a mountaintop to retrieve the coal inside, is just one of many local and national environmental issues the Sierra Club works to spread awareness and action about.
Kay's Cooking Corner
This month we celebrated Don’s birthday with a wonderful gathering of friends and family. Don’s sister, Susan, got the birthday cake, and a fine one it was! Check out the picture to the left of the masterpiece! It was the hit of the party!
Anyway, my sister came up with the idea of researching the history of birthday cakes and celebrations, which I thought was a great idea.
The Critic's Corner
Modern moviemaking techniques have finally caught up with film director Tim Burton’s imagination. That’s a good thing, because even though Burton has one of the most fertile minds in Hollywood, the visuals in his films have often fallen short of what he appeared to be shooting for, perhaps due to budgetary and technological limitations.
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