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Daniel J Meador

2015-09-05T10:27:14+00:00

DanMeadorDaniel John Meador, James Monroe Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia, was born in Selma, Alabama, in 1926. He attended The Citadel, was graduated from Auburn University and the University Law School, and received the degree of Master of Laws from Harvard University.
He served in Korea during the Korean War and was then a law clerk to Justice Hugo Black on the U.S. Supreme Court. After practicing law in Birmingham, Alabama, Meador joined the law faculty in 1957 at the University of Virginia, where he spent most of his career.
In 1965-66, he was a Fulbright Lecturer in England and from 1966 to 1970 was dean of the […]

Daniel J Meador2015-09-05T10:27:14+00:00

Clifton Meador

2015-09-05T10:24:53+00:00

meadorClifton K. Meador was born in Alabama in 1931 and attended Vanderbilt School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. After graduating with top honors, he moved to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York for his internship and first year of residency. Two years in the Army medical corps followed before his residency and a fellowship in endocrinology were completed at Vanderbilt.
Meador’s varied medical career includes practicing with the physician who delivered him into this world, directing the N.I.H. Clinical Research Center in Alabama, serving as dean at the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, returning to Vanderbilt to create the teaching service at Saint Thomas Hospital, and […]

Clifton Meador2015-09-05T10:24:53+00:00

Sharon Darby Hendry

2015-09-05T10:18:31+00:00

sharonSharon Darby Hendry’s first manuscript, An Element of Truth, is a true story about a woman con artist. It was translated into a made-for-TV movie, starred Donna Mills, and first aired on CBS in 1995. Glensheen’s Daughter, The Marjorie Congdon Story, is a regional bestseller and is in its ninth printing. Hendry is working on a screenplay based on her latest book, SoLiAh, The Sara Jane Olson Story. All three stories feature fascinating women who chose to live outside the boundaries of the law.
Hendry and her husband divide their time between Minnesota’s Twin Cities and northern Wisconsin.

Sharon Darby Hendry2015-09-05T10:18:31+00:00

Cable Publishing Featured Author – Flint Whitlock

2015-09-01T15:26:10+00:00

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In the summer of 2006, a query to agents and publishers landed on my desk. Historian Flint Whitlock of Denver (www.flintwhitlock.com) sent the query blast, looking for anyone who might be interested in his upcoming book, Capt. Jepp and the Little Black Book. I answered immediately, but I didn’t know then that my life was about to take a very interesting turn. There were about 40 publishers and agents who responded to Flint’s query, and I was fortunate enough to bring Capt. Jepp into print the following January – just in time for Elrey Jeppesen’s 100th birthday celebration at Denver International’s Jeppesen Terminal.
As our Capt. Jepp project […]

Cable Publishing Featured Author – Flint Whitlock2015-09-01T15:26:10+00:00

We Lost a Legend – Monica Lewis Lang

2015-08-21T16:06:25+00:00

Monica with her memoir: Hollywood Through My Eyes Monica, with Jackie Boor, author of Logan Read the New Yorker Interview with Monica Monica Lewis passed away on June 12, 2015. Those who grew up in the 1940s and 1950s will probably remember her beautiful voice on countless radio shows but, to many, her name is not familiar. However, millions will remember her as the voice of Miss Chiquita Banana.
Monica was born in Chicago on May 5, 1922, with the dark clouds of the Great Depression looming on the horizon. Her father, Leon, was an accomplished composer and conductor; Monica’s mother Jessica sang with the Chicago Opera Company. When both parents lost their jobs during the […]

We Lost a Legend – Monica Lewis Lang2015-08-21T16:06:25+00:00

Boobies, Peckers, & Tits – World Record?

2015-08-15T15:24:48+00:00

Oo-la-la, Olaf! bpt3dA few years ago, Olaf Danielson lay for several agonizing, frustrating days in a hospital bed – unmoving and with eyes closed – suffering from a severe vertigo attack. With plenty of time to think, he vowed that, if he could resume a normal life, he would fulfill the last item on the bucket list that he had written as a teen. And he had plenty of time to plan how he would accomplish that goal: to be a world record holder.
Boobies, Peckers and Tits: One Man’s Naked Perspective documents Olaf’s epic quest, which combined seeing as many species of birds In one year…while he was nude. […]

Boobies, Peckers, & Tits – World Record?2015-08-15T15:24:48+00:00

Turbulence before Takeoff’s Marlon Green Receives Award

2015-01-21T14:37:24+00:00

Marlon Green and Family
At the Milton P. Crenshaw Aviation Training Academy’s annual awards banquet on January 17, 2015, Marlon Green posthumously received their Courage in Aviation Award. Green, a skilled Air Force pilot, was the first African American pilot to be hired by a commercial airline after a long legal battle that took him and his family all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Green flew for Continental Airlines from 1965 until his retirement in 1978.
The awards banquet was held at the Philander […]

Turbulence before Takeoff’s Marlon Green Receives Award2015-01-21T14:37:24+00:00
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