Southern Life
Talmadge Country-Cured Ham
The ham at the center of Betty’s hunt-breakfast menu.
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The Editor
Southern Life
Lucille Ball came to breakfast
A hunt breakfast at Lovejoy, from Betty Talmadge’s cookbook.
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Feature Stories
What the Talmadge paper printed.
A racist cartoon, a federal order and the readers who helped a political machine run.
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Feature Stories
Herman Talmadge and Emilio Pucci: One night in Athens
Before one became a senator and the other a fashion name, Herman Talmadge and Emilio Pucci appeared on opposite sides of a student symposium. The newspapers kept the arguments, the clothes, and a joke about red suspenders.
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Feature Stories
J. Robert Elliott: The man who made the motion
Before he was a federal judge, J. Robert Elliott helped put Herman Talmadge in the governor's office. His career runs from a disputed succession in Atlanta to courtrooms where Black Georgians sought their rights and William Calley challenged his conviction.
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