Few cities are as identified with a book as Atlanta is with "Gone With the Wind." But locating vestiges of Margaret Mitchell's epic story can be tricky. More than a few visitors have driven down Tara Boulevard, near the airport, and been disappointed to find a landscape that has little to do with Scarlett O'Hara's plantation house and everything to do with the Waffle House.
The premiere of "Gone with the Wind" took place in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 15, 1939, but not without a territorial struggle of its own, a war between the states of California and Georgia.
Reclusive author J.D. Salinger has emerged, at least in the pages of court documents, to try to stop a novel that presents Holden Caulfield, the disaffected teen hero of his classic "The Catcher in the Rye," as an old man.
Memorial Day weekend has arrived: the symbolic, if not the official, beginning of summer.
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MULTIMEDIA PC You knew about the wedding; at last you're invited to the reception. The marriage of the CD-ROM drive and the personal computer promised a combination of sophisticated graphics, sound...
The 50th anniversary of Gone With the Wind falls in 1989, and Betty Talmadge, 65, ex-wife of longtime Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge is counting on a golden year too. In Lovejoy, Georgia, 25 miles...
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