24 Sep 2023 8:46 am
The Index owner who hired my grandmother who sometime in 1915 hired an almost six feet tall 18 year old girl had no idea that girl would start a weekly column that would make that paper the largest circulation of any one press small town newspaper on the planet earth.RebelGator » 23 Sep 2023, 2:58 pm » wrote: ↑ Can you tell us something funny that your Grandmother said?
As a world class humorist, she must have quipped something when she saw your head pop into the world.
And except for her 1963 book which was financed by the producers and directors of the Beverley Hillbillies to settle a threatened copyright infringement lawsuit every word she ever wrote was as an employee of The Index and the paper got all the revenue.
I lived long enough to ask her why she didn’t syndicate her column like Al Cap and Lil’l Abner.
She said the owners wanted to, but she enjoyed being driven everyplace by The Index and counting the weekly circulation herself.
To this day when you read her columns you can’t tell if she really hated “that damned old Roosevelt” or was sneaking liberal satire past the arch conservative owner who would all be Trumpy if he was alive today.
I believe she was a closet liberal, but cannot prove it.