Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, September 29, 1967

McCullers Dies

Novelist and Columbus native Carson McCullers, who overcame the personal suffering of paralysis to leave the world a strangely beautiful literature of the lonely, died today. She was 50. Her illness was all the more tragic because a teenage Carson Smith had every intention of becoming a concert pianist in 1935 when she left Columbus, where she was born Feb. 17, 1917.

Sports

The Atlanta Braves announced today that manager Billy Hitchcock, an Opelika resident and Auburn alumnus, will be replaced for the 1968 season, but no successor was immediately named. Hitchcock, 51, had been manager of the Braves since August 9, 1966.

Vietnam

President Johnson will report to the nation at 9:30 p.m. tonight on progress of the Vietnam war. He was expected to make clear that U.S. bombing of North Vietnam will continue until Hanoi shows some dependable sign of cutting back on their own combat operations.

This story was originally published September 28, 2017 at 3:41 PM with the headline "Looking Back."