MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1997
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. – Martha Stewart, the purveyor of gracious living, will not face criminal charges for an alleged confrontation with a neighbor’s landscaper. The landscaper, Matthew Munnich, filed a complaint alleging he was pinned by Stewart’s car on May 21 after she discovered workers building a fence between her property and that of her neighbor, real estate millionaire Harry Macklowe. Munnich claimed Stewart cursed him out and pinned him to the control box of a gate opener as she backed up her car. He said he suffered bruises. But Suffolk County Dist. Atty. James Catterson said the dispute, ”as objectionable as it may appear,” does not warrant criminal prosecution and should be settled in civil court, where he said at least two lawsuits have been filed. The allegation was the latest in a two-year row between Stewart and Macklowe, who has an adjoining spread in this retreat of the rich and famous.
50 years ago — 1972
CUSTER, S.D. – Senator Thomas Eagleton acknowledged Tuesday he has received psychiatric care three times in the past 12 years including electric shock treatment twice. Senator George Mcgovern immediately declared full faith in his Democratic running mate. In an emotional joint news conference, Eagleton said he received psychiatric care in 1960, 1964 and 1966 for “nervous exhaustion and fatigue and manifestations of depression.”
75 years ago — 1947
Memphis will have 52-passenger DC-6 plane service about Sept. 1, M.D. Miller of Dallas, regional vice president of American Airlines, revealed here yesterday. Mr. Miller said the DC-6 will offer one-stop service to New York and one- and two-stop service to Los Angeles.
100 years ago — 1922
“This is a glorious welcome home.” His voice trembling with suppressed emotion, Capt. G.T. Fitzhugh uttered these words as he faced a sea of faces numbering more than, 1,500. He had just been presented by J.E. Holmes to an audience that taxed to the limit the capacity of the Lyceum Theater. With the exception of the topmost gallery, every seat in the big playhouse was occupied, and more than 500 were turned away. It was the greatest outpouring of people to hear a political speech since the memorable night in 1908 when Malcolm R. Patterson and the late E.W. Carmack measured lances in debate at the old Auditorium, when the two were candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor.
125 years ago — 1897
SAN ANTONIO – The Neely Zouaves of Memphis were yesterday awarded first prize in the Zouave Drill at the Interstate contest. The company is commanded by Captain F.K. Deffry.