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That time Johnny Unitas deflated Randall Jarrell’s ego

Posted in Just A Bite, tagged , , , on September 4, 2017 | Leave a Comment »

“Poet and critic Randall Jarrell, one of the most prominent American intellectuals of the mid-20th century, taught a seminar in Russian literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the fall of 1964. I was an MFA student in fiction at the time and a member of Jarrell’s class—the last he saw through […]

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Woman’s College alum paved way for ‘Hidden Figures’

Posted in Just A Bite, tagged , , , , on January 16, 2017 | Leave a Comment »

“Woman’s College alumna Virginia Tucker ’30 [was] a trailblazer for the female mathematicians — known as ‘computers – highlighted in ‘Hidden Figures.’ “Tucker was one of five women to join the first human computer pool at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1935. “When World War II broke out, more women were recruited as computers to […]

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Cotton pickers’ strike exposed rift in populism

Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged , , , , , , , on November 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »

“Leonidas L.  Polk, president of the Southern Alliance and a former Confederate colonel, best expressed the white Alliance leadership’s perspective regarding…  the proposed cotton pickers’ strike. Not for one moment, he declared through his paper the Progressive Farmer, did he ‘hesitate to advise our farmers to leave their cotton in the field rather than pay […]

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Dylan Thomas gave a reading to remember

Posted in On This Day, tagged , , , , , on May 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »

On this day in 1953: Fred Chappell, a junior at Canton High School, hitchhikes 250 miles to Duke University to hear his hero, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Chappell will soon enroll at Duke and study under writing professor William Blackburn, whose students over the years also include Reynolds Price, William Styron, Josephine Humphreys and Anne […]

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