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He was an Atlanta boxing champion and became the 1949 Georgia State Lightweight Golden Gloves Champion. He had three children, Laurie, Susan, and David. Asher was formally a sportswriter for the Atlanta Constitution in the 1950s, and he served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War. After the birth of his third child, he chose to pursue life insurance to earn more money for his family. Once he retired, Asher founded the Jewish Georgian newspaper. Asher was extremely proud of being Jewish and was a member of Atlanta’s Hebrew Benevolent Congregation. Eugene Asher passed away on December 28, 2015 and was buried at Crest Lawn Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eEugene Asher begins the interview by reflecting on his involvement with playing baseball at the Jewish Orphan's Home and his overall interest in the sport. He discusses his connection between baseball and Judaism, as well as his pride in being Jewish. Asher goes on to reminisce about his parents and extended family. He briefly mentions his involvement in boxing before discussing his upbringing in a Jewish neighborhood and his congregation, the Temple. Asher talks a little about his children and their occupations at the time the interview. He reflects on his experience with antisemitism. Asher discusses the newspaper he found, the Jewish Georgian. Asher then goes into his time in the Marine Corps and the Korean War. He concludes by explaining how he eventually went into the insurance business at New England Life because he was not making enough money as a sportswriter.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28930"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Asher, Eugene (1928-2015) (personal name)","Atlanta, Georgia (geographic term)","Parris Island (geographic term)","Marine Corps (topical term)","Antisemitism (topical term)","Jewish Georgian (corporate name)","Sportswriter (topical term)","Baseball (topical term)","Insurance Business (topical term)","Marvin Rothglath (personal name)","Jewish Newspaper (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eEugene Asher interviewed by Margery Diamond on October 26, 1993 and November 9, 1993 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEugene Asher was born on May 5, 1928, to his parents Baron and Erna Asher, and was the youngest of three children. He was an Atlanta boxing champion and became the 1949 Georgia State Lightweight Golden Gloves Champion. He had three children, Laurie, Susan, and David. Asher was formally a sportswriter for the Atlanta Constitution in the 1950s, and he served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War. After the birth of his third child, he chose to pursue life insurance to earn more money for his family. Once he retired, Asher founded the Jewish Georgian newspaper. Asher was extremely proud of being Jewish and was a member of Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s Hebrew Benevolent Congregation. Eugene Asher passed away on December 28, 2015 and was buried at Crest Lawn Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEugene Asher begins the interview by reflecting on his involvement with playing baseball at the Jewish Orphan's Home and his overall interest in the sport. He discusses his connection between baseball and Judaism, as well as his pride in being Jewish. Asher goes on to reminisce about his parents and extended family. He briefly mentions his involvement in boxing before discussing his upbringing in a Jewish neighborhood and his congregation, the Temple. Asher talks a little about his children and their occupations at the time the interview. He reflects on his experience with antisemitism. Asher discusses the newspaper he found, the Jewish Georgian. Asher then goes into his time in the Marine Corps and the Korean War. He concludes by explaining how he eventually went into the insurance business at New England Life because he was not making enough money as a sportswriter.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Asher_Gene.mp3"]},"duration":9730.296,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/168/388/original/Asher_Gene.mp3?1665107444","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mp3","duration":9730.296,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Asher, Eugene [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: This is Margery Diamond interviewing Gene Asher on October 26, for\nthe Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta co-sponsored by American Jewish\nCommittee, Atlanta Jewish Federation and National Council of Jewish Women. Gene,\njust for the tape would you say your name and your address.\n\nASHER: My name is Gene Asher , and my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"address is 2460 Peachtree Road, Atlanta.\n\nDIAMOND: Thank you. We've done the introduction, and this is side Eugene Asher\nof the first tape that we're doing, and I just want to say thank you for\nagreeing to speak with me today. I know you've given some thought to what you\nwant to share. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where would you like to begin?\n\nASHER: I'd like to begin with my father speaking to me about playing baseball at\nthe Jewish Orphan's Home.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, tell us about it.\n\nASHER: When I was a preteenager, probably ten or less, I had loved sports and my\ndad used to tell me about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pitching baseball for the old Jewish Orphan's Home\nwhich I believe was on Washington Street. He was the pitcher and he told me\nabout the catcher who was Mike Eplan who was uncle of Leon Eplan who was the\ncity of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta, city planner, I believe that's his title. So, I became very\ninterested in Jews in sports at an early age. I remember my dad taking me to\nPonce De Leon Park ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where Tech High School and Boys High School , which were the\nmain two male high schools in Atlanta in those days. Then there was Girls High\nSchool. There was no co-ed except at one school, Commercial High School which\nwas a non-college prep school. Tech High and Boys High were college prep\nschools. My dad took me to these games. I'm pretty sure I was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"first time,\nand I went out there and I was real excited because Boys High, when Boys High\nplayed the game there were always a lot of Jews playing football for Boys High\nin those days. I particularly remember people like Jake Bromberg and Charlie\nFurchgott. In fact, Charlie Furchgott was named on the All-Time Boys High School\nFootball ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Team. Charlie later lost an eye in the war but still managed to come\nback to University of Georgia and play football at Georgia with one eye and did\na real good job for the University of Georgia. Then Charlie had a brother name\nMaurice Furchgott who came later. He also played at Boys High. Maurice played ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at\nGeorgia Tech after he graduated from Boys High. In one of the games, they played\nagainst each other. There were so many others that I remember. There was a\nhalfback named Ben Ehrlich. He was another one of the All-Time Boys High greats.\nThere was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Irving \"Ickie\" Orenstien, another half back. Later there was Charles\nSpielberger. I used to go out to Piedmont Park as a ten-year-old and get\nautographs of these players. I just happened, anybody that happened to be Jewish\nthat played ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sports and came to Atlanta, I was there. Much later I remember this\nwas in 1951, it was in 1950 or 1951, the Atlanta professional baseball team\nwhich was the Atlanta Crackers ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did not have a Jewish ball player then. They had,\nin the past, had one, their all-time greats, a man named Sammy Mayer, who's from\nAtlanta. And Sammy had a brother named Irskin Mayer. Irskin went onto the major\nleagues and had two back-to-back, twenty games plus, winning seasons which is\nrare ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and noteworthy. Sammy Mayr never made it to the major leagues, however,\nthere's a story that I read in an old Atlanta Constitution that said when Sammy\nMayr played for the Atlanta Crackers, there was an old tree out in deep center\nfield on a bank and that one of the opposing players hit this long ball out\ntoward this tree ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Sammy Mayer climbed the tree and held on with one hand and\ncaught the ball with the other hand. That was; I find it difficult to imagine\nthat happening and yet, it must have happened because it was in the paper. I\nassume whoever was covering the Crackers couldn't have made it up. Sammy Mayr\nwas the captain of the team, the manager of the team and the centerfielder of\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"team. I digressed from the 1950 for a minute because the Mayr brothers came\nearlier than that, much earlier. They were in the early 1900's and were\ncontemporaries of my father who knew them both. My dad had a clothing store here\nin Atlanta with his brother's, Sam, Al and Abe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and was called Sam Asher \u0026\nBrothers [indistinct: 07:34] knew a lot of people in town and a lot of people,\nof course, were aware of them. The story that. I was going tell you about 1950\nwas, my dad and I went out to the games almost, every night, and, of course, we\nwould always cheer for' the Atlanta team except when Memphis [Grizzlies] came to\ntown ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because Memphis had a left-handed Jewish pitcher named Marvin Rothglath\n[sp] Whenever he came to town, we always cheered for Memphis. Rothglath was\nabsolutely sensational. He had the best winning percentage of any pitcher in the\nsouthern league, the league that the Atlanta Crackers were in. He also led the\nleague in strikeouts and shut ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"outs. When the reason was over, he went up to the\nChicago White Sox. I remember my dad and I sitting there and going \"Come on\nMarv, come on Marv.\" People looked at us like we were from Memphis, but we were\nreally for Rothglath. That was in 1950 or 1951. In 1952, I was in the Marine\nCorps, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I was stationed at Quantico, Virginia at the time. I had a weekend\noff. In fact, I had, of course, several weekends off. In one of those weekends,\nI was sitting in a cocktail lounge of one of the hotels in Washington D.C.,\nwhich was only thirty-five miles from Quantico, Virginia, and I went with a\nfellow classmate of mine. 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My friend\nsaid to me, \"You know who just came in here?\" I said, \"No, who?\" He said, \"A\nsoldier ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that looks exactly like Martin Rothglath.\" I got excited and I said,\n\"Where, where is he?\" He said, \"He's right. over there.\" He pointed over to a\ncorner and I turned around and he did look like Marvin Rothglath as I remembered\nhim. I got excited and I rushed over to his table, and I said, \"Are you Marvin\nRothglath?\" He said he was. I said, \"I'm Gene Asher ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from Atlanta and you don't\nknow me but my dad and I used to watch you pitch in Atlanta and we would cheer\nyou and we ought to go call my daddy because he'd get a big kick of out of this\"\nI helped Marvin out of his chair, [indistinct: 10:43] and then he went along\nvery willingly. We went to a telephone booth, and we called my dad and my dad\ntalked to Marvin Rothglath. That was a really amazing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"story. Rothglath got as\nbig a kick of it, I think, as my dad and I did.\n\nDIAMOND: That's quite a compliment.\n\nASHER: Then, later on, when I went in the life insurance business, I went with\nNew England Life. The Atlanta agency and I was in a meeting one time at St.\nThomas of the leading producers of the company. 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Years later I was writing freelance\nfor the Atlanta Journal ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I was writing advance obituaries on famous athletes.\nOne of the most famous athletes from Georgia was a Hall of Fame baseball player\nnamed Luke Appling. Luke Appling played for the Chicago Whiet Sox and was the\nmanager for the Memphis team ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when Marvin Rothglath pitched. I had to write this\nadvance obituary on Luke Appling and trailed various people who had known Luke\nto get some quotes about him. I explained to them what I was doing, that I was\nwriting an advance obituary and I wanted a comment about what they remembered\nmost about Luke. 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Then, in\nbasketball and in track and in tennis, there were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just one after another that\nwould periodically surface here in Atlanta. All these people were my heros. When\nI was writing sports back in the fifties, I remember writing about Morris\nDwoskin who has the Dwoskin Wallcoverings. 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I still get a big kick out of anybody who is Jewish an excels ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in\nanything whether it's athletically or artistically or professionally.\n\nDIAMOND: So, being Jewish is important to you?\n\nASHER: It is. I feel a great sense of pride in being Jewish. 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If you would, start with your parents and talk about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that extended family.\n\nASHER: Okay, my father was from Augusta, Georgia. His father had a clothing\nstore in Augusta, and they decided, when my dad was probably six years old, that\nthey were going to move to Atlanta. This would have been around 1898. 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He\ntook care of his sister. He really looked after her.\n\nDIAMOND: What was her name?\n\nASHER: Her name was Nettie. I don't remember the store at Peachtree at all, but\nI remember the articles I read about it. The last place they had the store was\non the ground floor of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Candler Building. In those days, and even up through\nthe time I was in high school which would have been through the 40's, the\nCandler Building was one of the two tallest buildings in Atlanta. The other one\nwas the Rhodes Haverty Building, which was right across the street, both on\nPeachtree Street, Peachtree at Houston. 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Then\nthe store was, for years, I can remember people that I had met asking me if I\nwas related to the Asher's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who had the clothing store. It was a very popular\nstore in Atlanta. Then they eventually closed. They had a booming business for a\nlong time and then I don't know what led to the demise of it, but it did go\ndownhill, and they eventually closed the store. My Uncle Al retired. My Uncle\nSam went to work for a store called ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Parks-Chambers, a men's clothing store. My\nUncle Abe went to work for a store called the National Shirt Shops. My dad went\nto work for a store called Schwab. Schwab was owned by a Jewish family from\nColumbus, Georgia, Schwab, I think it was S-C-H-W-A-B, although the clothing\nstore was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"S-C-H-W-B-O-I-L-T. Anyway, my father grew up in Atlanta and went to\nBoys High School and played baseball for the Jewish Orphan's Home. He was the\nonly one of the brothers who played ball. After, he went into business. He was\non a buying trip to buy some men's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"clothes in Pittsburgh. He went up there and\none of the clothing manufacturers that he bought from said that he wanted him to\nmeet a nice Jewish girl and it turned out to be my mother who, at an early age,\nhad moved from Mansfield, Ohio to Pittsburgh. 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That was started by Mark Taylor's father. Now I can't think of Mr.\nTaylor's name.\n\nDIAMOND: Herbert.\n\nASHER: Herbert. Thank you. Herbert Taylor opened the Taylor Drug Company. This\nmuch have been in the 1930's, probably the late 1930's. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mother convinced him\nto let her put in a cosmetic counter, which she did. She ran that for a while.\nLater on, she worked in a grocery store. She also played the piano, in fact, she\nused to play all hours of the night. She'd play college fight songs. 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My mother thought it\nwas pretty good, parental pride, so, she said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"We ought to take this show on\nthe road.\" She and I rehearsed together, and she played the piano for me, and I\nwould sing \"Mammy\" and \"Suwannee\" and \"You Made Me Love You\" and just about\nevery song Jolson ever sang. We would go to Griffin and Macon [Georgia] and\nvarious towns and sing at civic club meetings. 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Formwalt School was one of the schools I know where she\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"distributed a lot of clothes that she got from her friends. I'll mention one\nhere because I remember I wore some of the clothes that Fanny Revson [sp] gave\nmy mother. My mother and Fanny Revson were very close. Fanny Revson had an\nantique shop here. She had a son named Alfred who is still here and was a\nstockbroker and still is. 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I remember another good part of being ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish\ngrowing up was going over to the old Jewish Educational Alliance on Capitol\nAvenue and playing basketball there with people like Alvin Halpern and Hank\nLevenson and David Isenberg and Benn Edlestein. 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He doesn't live in Atlanta anymore, so, he missed out on\na lot of things because he went in the Navy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at an early age. I think he was\nseventeen when he went in the Navy. Of course, this was World War II. He took\nhis training out at the naval air station in Chamblee. It wasn't in Marietta as\nit is today, but it was at, what's now the Peachtree-Dekalb airport. 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Then they had\ntwo children, Gene, who was named after me and Barry, I think Barry was named\nafter my dad. His name was Baron. My brother came back from the war and then he\nmoved to Daytona Beach [Florida], and he's been down there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ever since.\n\nDIAMOND: You were talking about Laura being married to Morris Benator and their\nchildren are Gene and Barry.\n\nASHER: Right, that's through that marriage. Now, they got divorced and Morris\nremarried Zelda Cadranel [sp] I think and then they had some more children. 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I can call my sister . . .\n\nDIAMOND: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's just as you remember it. It doesn't have to all be facts as you\nremember it.\n\nASHER: Let's see now, I think I covered pretty much the Alliance. Really\ncouldn't say enough about the Alliance because that's where it all was. Every\nSunday we were over there. 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When\nwe would go to some social affair and we would end up in the back seat of the\ncar, instead of hugging and kissing, I wanted to be asking questions about when\nhave you heard from Bernard? Where is he? What's he doing now? Anyway, I don't,\nknow how much Bernice appreciated that, but I was just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one tracked on the Maine\nCorps and one tracked on anybody Jewish doing anything in the Marine Corps and\nBernard was. Bernard was an inspiration there and I later went through Marine\nCorp OTS and got my commission. 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Then she would play the Wisconsin fight song on the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"piano. Anyway, I got the job. I have to attribute it to mother's charm and that\nwas a start in the newspaper business.\n\nDIAMOND: I'm going to ask you to skip around a little bit because I think that's\nsort of unusual for a person of your mom's age to have been able to go to\ncollege. 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I have so many wonderful memories of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that. As I say, I had a good\nfriend, Freddy Miller that lived next door and David Berkman lived down the\nstreet and Irwin Jacobsen lived up the street. One of the teachers at Tech High\nwas Jewish. His name was Isaac Rothberg. He lived on Boulevard, up the street.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mr. Rothberg was the only Jewish teacher at either Tech High or Boys High.\nEverybody loved him, particularly the athletes. He liked the athletes, too. He\nwas a big sports fan. One of their daughters, one of the Rothberg's daughters\nmarried I. J. Rosenberg, who's the Brave's writer for the Journal.\n\nDIAMOND: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Botnik?\n\nASHER: No, that's another tie in. Bunny married I. J.'s mother. Bunny married\nCharles Rosenberg, that's what it was. Charles and Bunny are the parents of I.\nJ. I had it a little bit off ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and you had it right.\n\nDIAMOND: The neighborhood that you were in was definitely a Jewish neighborhood,\nthat's unquestionable. What, if any, synagogue or temple affiliations do you\nremember in your family? Was there any organized religion affiliation?\n\nASHER: Of course, my parents were members of the Temple ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from the days when it\nwas on the south side of Atlanta. I remember always going to Temple on the High\nHoly days with my father and always breaking the fast with my father. In fact,\nas a family we used to break the fast at the restaurant across the street which\nis no more. 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I was confirmed at the Temple in 1944.\n\nDIAMOND: Who was the rabbi then?\n\nASHER: The rabbi at my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Confirmation , I believe it was still Dr. Marx.\n\nDIAMOND: Can you talk a little bit about the Temple with Dr. Marx there?\n\nASHER: I can tell you an interesting story about Rabbi Rothschild.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay.\n\nASHER: I was working on a cruise ship one time and among my duties was to\ncirculate on deck during the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"day and talk to the passengers. I was out talking\nto this man one day and I asked him where he was from and he told me he was from\nPittsburgh and I said, \"My mother was from Pittsburgh.\" He asked me what her\nname was, and I told him, but he didn't know her. I also said, \"My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rabbi is from\nPittsburgh.\" He said, \"Who is that?\" I said, \"Jack Rothschild.\" He said, \"I'm\nmarried to his sister.\" I don't know where she was when this conversation was\ngoing on but later the evening at dinner, I did meet her. Then when Bill\nRothschild, Jack's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"son, when Bill's son, Jacob had his bar mitzvah I was there\nand went to the reception and these people that I had met on the ship had come\nin from Pittsburgh to be there. Isn't it a small world when you meet people? I\nreally was fortunate to have two rabbis like Dr. Marx and Rabbi Rothschild. I'll\nsay three rabbis because I'll include Alvin Sugarman in that, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"too. I remember\nDr. Marx, there wasn't any funny business, you pretty much towed the line when\nyou went to Sunday school over there. I had a great deal of respect for Dr. Marx\nand he was good. I thought he was a leader in the community as Rabbi Rothschild\nwas. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"enjoyed going to the Temple and then my three children were confirmed at\nthe Temple.\n\nDIAMOND: Would you like to talk a little bit about your children? Tell us their\nnames and where they are today.\n\nASHER: They're in [indistinct: 01:02:25] with the baseball game to see Sandy\nKofany ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pitch wearing their Dodger caps. Laurie is the oldest. She is 35. She is\nan interior decorator, and she is employed by the Matthews Furniture Company.\nIt's in the West Paces Ferry shopping center, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Northside Parkway. Susan is 33 and\nshe is in the life insurance business, and she also writes for the Jewish\nGeorgian. David is 32 and he is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a sales rep for a cable network company. He\nsells time to ad agencies. As I was blessed by having a wonderful father and was\nblessed by having three wonderful children and two fine former ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wives. I can't\nsay enough about those children. They've really been a blessing to me. From the\ntime they were born, I remember when Laurie was one year old, and I was working\nat the newspaper I took her to a baseball game in her stroller. She stayed out\nthere the whole game and kept hollering at the umpire. To this day she still\nenjoys going to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"baseball game. We get together no less than every other week\nfor dinner. Sometimes it's every week, once a week for dinner. Susan and I talk\nalmost every day on the telephone. David had been in Tampa [Florida] until\nrecently, so, I didn't talk with him a lot but he's back here now. I expect I'll\nsee ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more of him. They've just brought me a lot of joy in my life. Their mother\nAdele Asher, who was Adele Spector, deserves a lot of credit for helping raise\nthose children.\n\nDIAMOND: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm not sure how long you've been divorced but you said you have two\nex-wives, that might have been a good while back and divorce wasn't quite as\ncommon as it is today. Do you want to share any thoughts about that?\n\nASHER: Maybe it wasn't, it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as friendly of a divorce as a divorce can be and\nI certainly feel blessed that we were married 21 years. We had a lot of great\ntimes together. We are friends today and we go out to dinner, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we talk on the\nphone. There's nothing I wouldn't do for her and I'm sure it's the same for her,\nshe would respond. Then I was married a brief time, I was single for, after\nAdele and I got divorced, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for about five years, maybe six years. Then I got\nmarried again and it didn't work. It just wasn't a very short-lived marriage. I\nwas married to a lady named Elaine Brooks who was not Jewish but the fact that\nshe was not Jewish had nothing to do with the marriage not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"working. I don't talk\nto her frequently because she lives in Florida but when she comes to town she'll\nalways call and say, \"Hi.\"\n\nDIAMOND: We covered a lot of ground here. Let's go back to where, you started\noff ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at one time talking about how you got into the writing business. Then we\nkind of skipped from that and didn't really pursue it. Would you like to talk a\nlittle bit about that now?\n\nASHER: I started writing when I was in junior high school, they had junior high\nschools then. I have to go back to this Jewishness again ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because when I was\ngoing to Bass Jr. High, the sports editor of the Tech High weekly newspaper was\nBen Ginsberg who had a brother who later worked at the Journal in advertising\nand was head of the advertising at the Journal. I didn't know either one of them\nthen, but I did know that a Jew was sports editor of the Tech High ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rainbow. I\nwasn't even planning to go to Tech High, I was planning to go to Boys High but\nwhen I changed my mind and decided to go to Tech High. The fact that Ben\nGinsberg had been sports editor of the Tech High was an inspiration to me. I\nthought, \"Well, I'll be sports editor of the Tech High paper.\" I did and then I\nwas sports editor of the annual and the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"literary society over there as well as\non the boxing team, so, I did both ends of it. I majored in, I first went to\nUniversity of Miami , and I wrote, after I graduated from Tech High, and I wrote\nfor the college paper down there. Also, I wrote for a weekly paper called the\nMiami Life that was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"put out by two Jewish brothers, Rueben and Ben Klein. I\nwrote one column a week about what was going on at the University of Miami\nsocially. Then I came back, and I got that job for the Associated ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Press. I\nwanted to go to work for the Constitution. I went down and asked for any job, to\nbe a copy boy, and I told them I'd been a copy boy for the Associated Press, and\nthey said they didn't have any openings. I went back every week. I forgot who,\nsomebody told me to do this, I can't remember if it was somebody I met at the\npaper or just a friend or my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father or whoever, but they said go back every\nweek. I kept, saying, \"I want the job, I want the job.\" Nothing ever happens. On\nmy twentieth birthday my mother had given me a surprise party and in the middle\nof the party the telephone rang, and it was the managing editor of the\nConstitution, and I went to the phone and he said, \"If you want that job as copy\nboy, you'd better get down here right ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now.\" I said, \"I'm on my way.\" I left my\nsurprise party and went down and delivered copy to the various editors of the\npaper the rest of that day. Then from there I went to the snorts department,\nthey knew my interest, in sports, so, they made me their own personal sports\ncopy boy. Then they let me write highlights on the sports ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"desk when I didn't\nhave to edit, or tear copy off the teletype machines. Eventually they let me\nstart covering high school ball games. Then I went, to Georgia, University of\nGeorgia, in the Spring of 1949, came back and worked in the sports department as\nan ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"intern and then in 1950 Furman Bisher came to Atlanta from Charlotte, North\nCarolina and lie gave me the job as sports correspondent at the University of\nGeorgia for the football season of 501 throughout that year to June of 1951.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's what I did. I wrote a story every day from Athens during football season.\nI would write a story about the game on Saturday. I would also freelance and\nwrite stories for the Columbus Ledger and Submarine Magazine Let's see, after\nthat, I graduated in June of 1951, went back to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"paper until November 1951\nand just covered different events, some boxing that was going on here in those\ndays, some amateur baseball. In November, I got to go to Marine Corp OCS and was\ngone in the Marines from 1951 to 1953. Came back ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and went to Daytona Beach with\nmy brother for three years to run a motel on the beach which we did and then I\njust got the urge that I didn't want to be a hotel manager, I wanted to write. I\ncalled Atlanta and asked them about coming back to the paper, so, they worked it\nout ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I went back as the prep sports editor. I was responsible for all the\ncoverages for all the high schools for the state. I wrote a column three days a\nweek. I was sort of director of sports promotions, and I had two events that I\npromoted each year. One was an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all-star high school baseball game between the\nstars of the city schools playing the stars of the metropolitan and suburban\nschools. The other game I promoted was an all start football game. That was a\nstatewide game between the stars of the north Georgia against the stars of the\nSouth Georgia. That was always a lot of fun. One of my big thrills ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there was,\nagain, the Jewishness comes into play, one of my big thrills was in 1959. The\n1959 All Star game, Larry Lefkowitz who had gone to Grady High School scored the\nonly touchdown of the game and set a new punting record for the game and was\nvoted most valuable player in the game. I remember corning up to the start of\nthat game that I was writing a lot ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about Laskowitz. Game was on Friday night and\nI think in the Sunday paper we ran a picture of Laskowitz. On Monday, I ran a\nstory about him and maybe on Wednesday another story about Laskowitz. He, of\ncourse, was just one of many stars. Furman Bisher called me into his office that\nWednesday after the third story came out and he said, \"Don't you think you're\noverdoing it on Larry Laskowitz?\" I said, \"No, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"don't.\" He looked at me and he\nsaid, \"Well, you're probably right. If you don't write about him, we don't have\nanybody else up there that would.\" Whenever anybody says anything about Furman\nBisher being antisemitic , I always tell them that story. Of course, I felt so\ngood when Larry had such a magnificent, game and was voted by all the writers\nand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the radio people and the school people that were there covering the game\nthat he was unanimously voted the most valuable player in the game. That was a\nbig thrill. Whenever, I think of Lane Walby again and some great games that he\nhad. It's just always a big thrill to see somebody Jewish do something well. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\ntook the same pride in Rob Lipshutz going to the White House and, of course, Ben\nMassell and Sam Massell being mayor of the City of Atlanta. Yet, as strong as I\nabout that, I don't feel like I'm any better than somebody that's not Jewish.\nThe old story that, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"well, some of my best friends are Jews. Some of my best\nfriends are non-Jews. In fact, probably most of them are non-Jews. When I\npublished the Jewish Georgian, we had a lot of non-Jews writing for the paper. I\nlove the part in the union prayer book that says, \"They were all created in\nthine image. Recognize that they are brethren, so, that one in spirit and one in\nfellowship they may be forever united before thee ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on that day the Lord's name\nwill be one, his kingdom will be one.\" I feel like that we're all brothers, but\nI still take a great deal of pride when somebody Jewish does something.\n\nDIAMOND: It's something that's going to thread throughout your life that your\nJudaism is important and it's exciting for you to see Jewish persons ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"making a\nstatement in our community. Did you ever have any memory of antisemitic type\ninstances coming up for you anywhere in your life that you might want to talk about?\n\nASHER: I did, there were antisemitic comments and going back to elementary\nschool, junior high school, and by the time I got to high ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school, I went to Tech\nHigh School. There were very few Jews there because it was known as an\nantisemitic high school which I felt was undeserved. There were people over\nthere that were antisemitic, but it was interesting to me, that, I mean, I\ncouldn't have been more active than I was at Tech High School. In fact, at my\ngraduation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got the activities medal for being in more activities than anybody\nelse. I got leadership roles in these activities and the leadership roles mostly\nwere voted on, so, I was voted these things by people who were not Jewish,\nprimarily. I think that a lot of that, some of it was deserved criticism that\nTech High students came, most of them, from the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"southside of town, maybe in\nareas where there were very few Jews. Not that Jews didn't live on the southside\nbecause a lot of them did. Some of these people came from areas on the southside\nwhere Jews did not live. They may have heard antisemitic comments from their\nparents. I don't, I really think that, for the most ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"part, people judge you on\nthe kind of person you are. It sounds like you knew there was antisemitism, but\nyour own personal experience was just one of support and good experiences.\nRight, and I think about two other people that come to mind that I, Nathan\nTeplis who has the Teplis Travel Agency which is one of the most successful\ntravel agencies in the country. Nathan went to Tech High School, and I don't\nthink ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anybody had any more friends in Tech High School than Nathan Teplis.\nPeople at the basketball game would cheer Hank Levenson and Chubby Swerner and\nGene Asher when I was fighting. The fact that I was Jewish didn't have anything\nto do with it. I have since, I'm not in many activities today but one of the\nthings ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I am in is the Tech High Alumni Association. I'm on the board of\ndirectors of the Tech High Alumni Association. It was interesting because I got\nto nominate somebody for the board, and I nominated Ben Ginsberg who was one of\nmy heroes when he was the sports editor of the Tech High Rainbow. I feel like\nthat ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I heard it growing up and sometimes I fought when I heard it. I would\nreally smack somebody and let them know that I was Jewish. I guess there were\ntimes in my life that I didn't let them know that I was Jewish. I kept my mouth\nshut. I took it and didn't say anything. Then there were other times that I\ndidn't. By the time I got to Tech High, I think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people, I don't know whether it\nwas because I was on the boxing team or whether it was because, \"Hey, this guy\nis representing Tech High and he's doing a hell of a job or he's giving his best\nand he's a Tech High Smithy [sp], he's not a Jew he's a Tech High Smithy.\"\nThat's, today I still go these reunions, every year, the Tech High reunions.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Chubby Swerner comes up from Miami where he lives. Abe Verner who has Verner\nAuto Supply comes. You see several Jews there but most of the Jews went to Boys\nHigh. There was a great intense rivalry between those two schools because they\nshared the same building.\n\nDIAMOND: . . . and that building was located?\n\nASHER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was at what is now Charles Allen Drive and Eighth Street and Monroe\nDrive and Eighth Street. In those days it was Boulevard and Parkway Drive. Boys\nHigh had wooden portables on the top of the hill which was Monroe Drive, I mean\nwhich was Charles Allen Drive and we, at Tech High, had the portables at the\nbottom. In between there was a brick building and the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two schools shared that\nbrick building. There used to be fights in there. People would open a classroom\ndoor and yell, \"To hell with Boys High\" or \"To Hell with Tech High.\" Then guys\nwould file out, they'd want to go clobber them. It was fun days. Riding the\nstreet cars and singing the songs, singing the high school fight songs. Rocking\nthe street cars and wondering if the streetcar was going to come off the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"track.\n\nDIAMOND: Alright, well, I think that we are getting real close to the end of the\ntape. Do you have anything you want to say before I cut it off?\n\nASHER: Just that I'd like to say something about the Jewish Georgian.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, definitely, let's do that or we can wait and do that on the next\ntape. There's a lot to say about that. Why don't we save that. We'll start off\nour next interview with that.\n\nASHER: Right, because so many people were involved in that.\n\nDIAMOND: I sort of made a decision not to mention ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that because I really don't\nwant you to feel rushed. Let's do that next time.\n\nDIAMOND: Gene, please state your name and address.\n\nASHER: This is Gene Asher at 2460 Peachtree Road, Apartment 103, Atlanta, 30305.\n\nDIAMOND: This is Margery Diamond interviewing Gene Asher on November 9, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1993.\nThis is for the Oral History Project of Atlanta co-sponsored by the American\nJewish Committee, Atlanta Jewish Federation and National Council of Jewish\nWomen. [indistinct: 01:26:17] . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":". working together in unity, all segments, all\nbranches of religions, the Orthodox , the Conservative , the Reformed and the\nunaffiliated. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Not just, of the Jewish religions, but of the Christian religions,\ntoo. We had many non-Jews that, helped the Jewish Georgian get started. I say it\nwas a graphic illustration of the community working together. Let me tell you\nabout, I was asked by Asher Benator, one of the giants in the Jewish community\nand Harris Jacobs ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"another giant, and Sam Appel to write a sports column for the\nJewish Times. I told Harris and Sam and Asher that I had no interest in writing\na sports column about, what was going on at the Jewish Community Center because\nthe Community Center wasn't, putting out a newspaper and they wanted me to write\nabout the news. I wasn't interested in doing that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I did tell them that I would\nwrite a column for the Jewish Times about people who had come out of the Jewish\nCommunity Center. Who had accomplished great things. Not only in the Jewish\ncommunity, but in the community at large. I met with the Jewish Times brand\ntrust, and they said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I presented this idea, they would look at a column\nand wanted me to do it once a month. I said that was fine with me. I wrote a\ncolumn, and it was to go out in the next issue and it wasn't in there. Then it\nwasn't in the next, issue and it wasn't in the next issue. Finally, I called\nover there at the Jewish Times and I said, \"When are you going to run that\ncolumn about the people who have come out of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Community Center and have gone\non to achieve groat things for Atlanta and for Georgia?\" They said, \"Well, we\nreally weren't interested in that. That's not what we want to write-about.\" I\nsaid, \"Thank you very much.\" Then I went back and I told Asher Senator and Mr.\nAppel and Mr. Jacobs what was said, and I can't remember whether it was Asher,\nbut I think it was Asher Benator who ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"said to me, \"Why don't you put out your own\nnewspaper and write what you want?\" I kind of laughed at that because at the\ntime. I was going full speed in the life insurance business and didn't envision\nspending time putting out a newspaper. However, ho planted the seed and I kept\nthinking about it at night. Maybe I could ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"put out a Jewish newspaper about\nAtlantans written by Atlantans, about Georgians written by Georgians. I thought,\nwell, let me talk to my good friend, Jim Mentor, who was the editor of the\nAtlanta Journal, who I went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"journalism school with at the University of\nGeorgia, who worked with me for years in the journal sports department when we\nwere both sports writers and as I liked to refer to as Sons of Bisher. Bisher\nwas the sports editor. Jim and I had been good friends and I think he is as\ncompetent as any newspaper man in the country. Of course, he eventually became\nexecutive editor of Atlanta Newspapers Incorporated. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5430.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jim met me downtown and I\nsaid, \"Jim, what do you think of an idea of a Jewish newspaper about Atlantans\nand about Georgians and nobody else, written by Atlantans and Georgians, no\nsyndicated, no outside writers but people who knew the people who had emerged\nfrom the Jewish community ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and obtained great stations in whatever occupations\nthat they chose?\" Jim said, \"I think it's a great idea. You ought to do it.\"\nWell, that was the big motivator. I went home that night, and I was thinking\nabout how do you start this thing. If it's going to be a Jewish newspaper, I'm\ngoing to have to get it distributed and I'm going to have to get advertisers. I\nthought the first person I ought to talk to, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was my rabbi, who was Alvin\nSugarman. I called him up and we made a luncheon date. I discussed it with Alvin\nand Alvin said, \"It's a wonderful idea. I think it could unite the community.\nYou ought to do it.\" Not knowing what was involved, I said, \"Okay, I'll do it.\"\nThe next thing I did was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to go to see Vida Goldgar, who at that time was writing\nfor the Jewish Times but had previously published the Southern Israelite which\nwas a local paper mainly about local people. I discussed it with Vida and she\nthought, she was not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5550.0,5580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"discouraging but she said there was going to be a lot of\nwork involved. I said, \"I feel like there is a niche because I don't see, in the\nJewish Times, a lot of local stories and I don't see many local human-interest\nstories.\" She said, \"There are not and they are probably not going to do it.\"\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then I went to Rabbi Sugarman and Rabbi Sugarman said, \"Well, we need the\nsupport of all of the congregations. I'll get you an appointment at the next\nmeeting of the Rabbinical Council of Atlanta.\" He did and before that meeting I\nwent to Sol Beton, gifted artist in the city, I asked Sol ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if I gave him some\nwritten scratched out dummy sheets of what eight pages of a newspaper might look\nlike, could he draw it where it would be attractive and artistic that I could\nshow the Rabbinical Council. He said yes. I dreamed up stories for about eight\npages and I took it to Sol and Sol got some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"regular newspaper dummy sheets the\nsame size as the tabloid that we were going to use for our paper and he put it\ntogether with headlines and pictures, drawings. I took these eight pages to the\nmeeting with the Rabbinical Council, and I said, \"This is what I want to do. I\nwant to bring together people from all the congregations and get them in this\nnewspaper. We want ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people featured in it, written about, photographs of them and\nwe want contributors, writers, and photographers from your congregation.\" They\nsaid, \"Why is this going to be different from the other Jewish Times?\" I said,\n\"Because this is going to be about members of your congregations. You've got to\nhelp me distribute it as well as help me put it together.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5700.0,5730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They all said they\nwould. So, I had the support of the Rabbinical Council. Then, not being a\nwealthy person, I knew I had to make sure that I could get this newspaper out\nwithout running into financial straits and difficulties, so, I talked to Mr.\nMentor ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"again and he said, \"Well, what you need to do is to sell the paper out,\nsell the ads for as many pages as you think you're going to get out the first\nissue. Then you'll know if you can afford to print it or not.\" That's what I\ndid, but that wasn't the next step. I thought about, \"If I'm going to approach\nthese advertisers, I've got to first have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a little bit of clout with people they\nknow who are involved in this paper.\" I went to sixteen of Atlanta's more\nnotable Jewish citizens and asked them to serve on the editorial advisory board\nof the Jewish Georgian. I asked sixteen of them, now, talk about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community\nsupport, fifteen of the sixteen agreed. I said, \"Now, here's what I want to do,\nput out a newspaper for the Jewish community written by members of the Jewish\nCommunity.\" They all thought it was a great idea and they all agreed to do it\nexcept one. Now, the one said he wanted to wait and see what it looked like\nbefore I input his name on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there. I never went back to him to ask him to be on\nthe board because I was pleased with the fifteen that accepted. This person that\ndeclined to accept did volunteer to write for the paper and he wrote some of the\nfinest articles that we ever had in the Jewish Georgian in the two years that I\nwas publisher of the paper. 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From the board's\npoint, I went on and still ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"delayed going to my potential advertisers and I went\nto such people as Louna Levy and Carolyn Gold, both of whom had written for the\nJewish Times. Carolyn was in journalism school with me. Zelda Lincoln as in\njournalism school with me and I went to her. I went back to Sol Reton and asked\nhim to be the art director which he readily agreed to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do. They all said they\nwould help. I knew I had an assemblage of a staff. There was also a young lady\nnamed Cecilia Branhart [sp] who I had seen articles from appear in other\npublications in Atlanta. I asked her to write. I asked Eddie Silverboard , who\nwas the, I think, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the stalwart of the Southern Israelite in its day. Eddie\nagreed to write. A pediatrician named Bruce Reeber [sp], who used to be a\nbaby-sitter for my children, is a great student of Jewish history and was doing\na book on synagogues in the south. He agreed to write about synagogues of the\nsouth in each issue. I'd asked each rabbi ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=5970.0,6000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if they would write a column at least,\nonce for the Jewish Georgian, so, in each issue we could have a column by a\nrabbi. They all agreed to do that. It was just heartwarming to see this\nresponse. Then I was ready to go to the advertisers. I did. I told them that we\nhad a staff and I showed them the first of the board of directors and I told\nthem about how the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"paper was going to be distributed in every synagogue in town\nand how it would be distributed in the delicatessens in town because I had gone\nto see people like Dave Landow and Sol Feldman and other owners of del i's who\nhad agreed In distribute the paper.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, we'll take a break . . . . Okay, we're back.\n\nASHER: Then, of course, I went to the Community Center and got them to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6030.0,6060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"distribute it and supermarkets to distribute it . . .\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, we're back online and we're going to talk about distributing and\nyou just mentioned something about the Atlanta Jewish Community Center.\n\nASHER: Okay, the Atlanta Jewish Community Center, the Peachtree branch, the\nZaban branch, the Cobb branch, they all helped distribute the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"paper. [I] went to\nOxford Book Stores and they agreed to distribute it. I went to the bookstore up\non Roswell Road near Piedmont, Borders Rook Store and they agreed to distribute\nit. I went to Chapter 11, and they agreed to distribute it. I was really ready\nto go to the advertisers now and tell them that their ads were going to get a\nlot of exposure. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6090.0,6120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did and it was amazing, in that first issue but it was almost\nlike the people that I asked to be on the board. The ones that I asked to\nadvertise did. People like Ron Blomberg who had a personnel counseling company.\nPeople like Gene Sutherland who's not Jewish but was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6120.0,6150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"referred to me by Jim\nMentor who owns a big company, Sutherland Eggs, and he sells a lot of eggs to\nall the deli's, so, Gene Sutherland advertised in it. I went to see Bill and Don\nWender of Wender and Roberts Pharmacy and they advertised in that first issue. I\nwent to see a Marine Corp friend of mine, James M. Farmer, who owned a company\ncalled Marietta Lighting and Decorating. I told him what I wanted to do and he\nadvertised in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6150.0,6180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it. I called Roger Gelder of Budget Auto Rental and got an\nappointment and Roger took, for that first issue, it was either a whole page or\na half a page. I can't remember. Of course, Sol Feldman and Dave Landow and\nHarry Mazair and the Shermaria Brothers at Bennys Shoes, the Renators, Morris,\nMax, Asher, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6180.0,6210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maslias, they all took out ads. It just seemed like, \"This isn't\ngoing to be as tough as I thought.\" Because I never expected to get the response\nfrom these potential advertisers that I did. I was hoping for it, but I was\noverwhelmed with their concern that this paper would get off the ground.\nOverwhelmed with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6210.0,6240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the charitable nature of wanting to make a contribution to\nsomething new that could help bring the Jewish community together. Then I went,\nback and I talked with some more writers, and we ended up with 21 people\ncontributing articles on a regular ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"basis. I mentioned so many of the Jewish\npeople that helped. There were a lot of non-Jewish people that, there was Dan\nMcGill, over at. Athens, who had coached people 1ike Beryl Weiner and Lyons Joel\n[sp]. He was the tennis coach at Georgia. Lee Walburn who was editor of Atlanta\nMagazine wrote a beautiful article as did Jim Mentor and Furman ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6270.0,6300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bisher and Tom\nMcAlister. The Atlanta Newspaper's gold writer, I. J. Rosenberg who wrote about\nthe Braves . . .\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, you were talking about some of the people who were writing.\n\nASHER: Okay, as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6300.0,6330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I say, I. J. Rosenberg who wrote about the Braves, he's the\nBrave's baseball writer for the Atlanta Newspapers. Kent Mitchell, who doesn't\neven write anymore for sports. He's still in the sports department but he wrote\nfor the Jewish Georgian. Janice Rothschild Blomberg , Janice was the wife of the\nlate Rabbi Jack Rothchild ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and later remarried Mr. Blomberg from Knoxville and\nlater moved to Washington and became national head of B'nai B'rith. Janice is a\ngifted writer and she sent in regular columns from Washington. Fashion articles\nby Sheila Kaminsky who's the fashion director at Rich's succeeding Sol Kent who\nwas the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fashion director for so many years. Sol is Sheila's brother-in-law.\nJesse Ottlarthe former sports editor of the Atlanta Constitution contributed\narticles. Denton Harris who put out a magazine called Toy and Hobby World; he\nwrote for the Jewish Georgian. Bill Hopkins, a professor of pharmacy at Mercer\nUniversity , ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wrote a beautiful article about Jews throughout the state who had\nbeen active in pharmaceutical association work and who had made contributions\nabove and beyond the call. Also, there were two Marine Corp generals, a\nfour-star general named General Raymond G. Davis of Atlanta, who was the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"assistant commandant of the Marine Corp and while the war was going on, when we\nwere getting missile attacks in Israel and the United States got involved,\nGeneral Davis wrote an article. Lieutenant General John McLaughlin, another\nMarine Corp general who lives in Savannah was most willing to write an article\nfor the Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6450.0,6480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgian.\n\nDIAMOND: Just for point of reference, you're referring to the Middle East war in\nJanuary of 1991.\n\nASHER: Yes, I should have put that in there, that this was in 1991 in the Middle\nEast when, who was it that first started the missile attack on Israel, but we\ngot in and I forgot the name of that operation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now. Somebody else who deserves a\nlot of credit for the Jewish Georgian was Phil Slotin. Phil Slotin did all the\nphotographic work for that first issue, and he did a lot of it for all the\nissues that we put out. He had an assistant named Phil Shapiro who made a big\ncontribution, but Phil Slotin was somebody that you could count, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6510.0,6540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on and he\nalways came through. Then, another good writer was a former high school football\ncoach here named Bill Deprano who is a Roman Catholic. He wrote many stories for\nthe Jewish Georgian. Bill Deprano, an attorney and the son of another Marine\nCorp general, one I was very close to when I was on active duty in the Marines.\nBill ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6540.0,6570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would practice law during the day and deliver the Jewish Georgian after\nwork. Carl Friedman down in Savannah wouldn't distribute the paper in Savannah.\nMelvin Bootsie Kruger [sp] in Macon would distribute it there. My two daughters,\nLaurie Asher and Susan Ashley, certainly, not only contributed a great deal but\nthey contributed as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"writers and as delivery people. Some of the other people who\nwrote articles were Ruth Shuster and Bob Lipshutz who was the council to\nPresident Jimmy Carter in Washington. Henry Nagle, Clarice Geigerman Woodruff,\nIda Borochoff, Cindy Goodwin. Cindy not being ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6600.0,6630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish, a family therapist, but\nshe wrote articles and Ray Tactly helped make up the paper. Dr. Ted Levit made\ncontributions as well as his wife, Miriam Eunice Barrows. Then we had to have\nsome ad sellers to make it work. We had some good on Bernard Sternclar and Judy\nRich ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6630.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Carol Rubenson. I was impressed with two people who advertised\nregularly. They both said the same thing. One was Dr. Michael Mescon, who has\nthe Mescon group, who's one of the most renown speakers in the country,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6660.0,6690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"motivational speakers and Dr. Sidney Earl Williams of the Life Chiropractic\nCollege . Both these people, Dr. Mescon and Dr. Williams, when I asked them for\nads in that, first issue they said, \"Yes, run the ads and don't call and ask\npermission to run it each issue, just run it in each issue and send us the\nbill.\" There's no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6690.0,6720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"way to sufficiently thank members of the board like Sam Appel\nand Jane Axelrod who was my, I felt like I had a personal cheerleader. No matter\nhow much had to be done Jane would say, \"What can I do to help. You're doing a\ngreat job. It's wonderful. Everybody loves it. Keep it up. Let us know how we\ncan help.\" She did help. Gil Bachman, of course, I mentioned Asher Benator, but\nIke Herbert, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6720.0,6750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who was the executive vice-president of Coca Cola USA , was a big\nhelp as well as Albert Meslier [sp] and Paul Muldower [sp] and I mentioned Rabbi\nSugarman and Sam Massell and Malvin H. Mayor stayed in the background. That was\na big booster and Rabbi Bill Rothschild , Marilyn Shubin. Just so many people\nthat I feel like the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6750.0,6780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whole community is indebted to. Not me, but the community\nat large. That's pretty much how the Jewish Georgian got going. It grew from the\nfirst issue of 24 pages to the last issues we put out, I think, had 36 pages. It\njust seemed to catch on. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6780.0,6810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It caught on, I think, because people wrote about\npeople. People wrote about human kindness, and I think people like to read about\nhuman kindness particularly when it's about people they know. I'm sure under the\nleadership of the new publishers, Marvin Botnik and Sam Apel, the Jewish\nGeorgian will ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6810.0,6840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"continue to flourish and obtain new heights.\n\nDIAMOND: What role do you plan to play in the new era?\n\nASHER: I have been the, Sam Apel and Marvin Botnik have had the paper for a year\nnow and I have been meeting with them on a regular basis to offer advice when\nthey wanted it, and I will continue to do that as long as they want me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6840.0,6870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to. Plus,\nI plan to contribute writing articles as I have done on a regular basis since\nthey have taken over.\n\nDIAMOND: Well, it's good that, you won't, be too far away.\n\nASHER: Thank you. Now we were going to talk about a couple of other things\nbesides the Jewish Georgian.\n\nDIAMOND: Right.\n\nASHER: We were going to talk about the ball park?\n\nDIAMOND: Yes, you mentioned something about Harold Wasser ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6870.0,6900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the whole ballpark.\n\nASHER: Let me just stop and take one short break.\n\nDIAMOND: Sure, we're getting close to the end. We can stop and turn the tape over.\n\nDIAMOND: This is Margery Diamond interviewing Gene Asher on November 9, 1993,\nfor the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta co-sponsored by the American\nJewish Committee Atlanta Jewish Federation and National Council of Jewish Women.\nThis is side two of our second ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6900.0,6930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tape. We had been talking about the Jewish\nGeorgian and you had mentioned that you had an editorial advisory board and we\nhad, I think about twelve of those people named on the reverse side of this tape\nand I had just asked you if you would like to go ahead and name the rest of your\nadvisory board before we moved on to another topic.\n\nASHER: Just to be sure I didn't know many. The members were Sam Appel, Jane\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6930.0,6960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Axelrod, Gil Backman , Asher Benator, Jack Gelbart. Ike Herbert, Harris Jacobs,\nAl Maz, Mike Mescon, Meghan, Paul Muldower, Rabbi Alvin Sugarman, Sam Massell,\nMalvin Mayor, Billy Rothschild, Marilyn Shubinand, and Doug Teeper [sp].\n\nDIAMOND: I am putting you on the spot, but you mentioned that there was one\nperson that you invited, and they declined and then they ended up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"writing, if\nyou would like to name that person, now would be a good time to do so and if you\ndon't, you don't, have to. I can almost tell from your expression.\n\nASHER: I prefer not to because he's already been mentioned in this oral history.\n\nDIAMOND: So, his name is part of it.\n\nASHER: Right.\n\nDIAMOND: Now we want to go and talk about the next subject, the old baseball park.\n\nASHER: Before the Atlanta Braves and before the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=6990.0,7020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"baseball stadium on the south\nside of town, we had the Atlanta Crackers. The Atlanta Crackers was a double-A\nas opposed to a major league team. There was the major league teams and then\nthere was triple-A and then there was double-A and then there was A, B, C and D.\nThere were lots of leagues in those days and you really had to be good to get in\nA. You had to be especially good to get as high as double-A which was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7020.0,7050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"league\nthe Atlanta Crackers played in. It was called the Southern Association. The\nballpark was out on Ponce De Leon Avenue across from where Sears Roebuck used to\nbe. I think there's now an oriental center out there. It was a magnificent\nballpark and Jews played a big role in Ponce De Leon park. Jews played out\nthere. I can remember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7050.0,7080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sammy Maer, who I mentioned earlier in this tape, Sammy\nMaer was captain of the Cracker team one year, manager of the Cracker team, one\nof the leading hitters and its best outfielder. I can't readily think of other\nJews who played for the Crackers, but I did mention Marvin Rocblat, who patched\nfor Memphis, and he would come to town. Chattanooga had a player named Sol\nRogervan who played third ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7080.0,7110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"base for Chattanooga. Went up to the Chicago White Sox\nand became a pitcher and became one of the best pitchers in the American league.\nHe was a twenty-game winner twice. Another one was Cal Abrams. Cal Abrams played\nfor the Mobile Bears . He was so good that he was elevated to the Brooklyn\nDodger major league team. Mobile was a farm team for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7110.0,7140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Brooklyn Dodgers . Cal\nhad a couple of good years for the Brooklyn Dodgers. On a regular basis there\nwere people who worked at the ballpark that played big roles in the concession\nbusiness. Some of these people were Dutch Gerson. Dutch Gerson worked behind the\ncounter in the grandstand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7140.0,7170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where you could buy Coca Colas and cigarettes and\ncigars and candy and beer. Then there was his little brother, Joe Gerson, who\nalso worked out there at times. Joe, himself was a good baseball player although\nhe never played for the Crackers, but Joe did work out there sometimes. Then\nthere was people that the ball park hired to chase the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7170.0,7200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"balls when they were hit\nout of the stadium. A batter would foul a ball off and it would go way up in the\nair, over the stadium, across the street into the Sears parking lot. There would\nalways be one person they referred to as ball boy on top of the roof who could\nsee when the ball was going to go over the roof and into the Sears parking lot.\nWhen that would happen, he would run up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7200.0,7230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the edge of the roof, close to the\nfield, with his right arm start waving it furiously signaling another ball boy\nto get out of his seat and go across the street and go fetch the ball. One of\nthose ball boys was a good close friend of mine named Harold Wasser. Mr. Wasser,\nwho was a teenager at the time, would go chase the balls many nights across in\nthe Sears parking ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7230.0,7260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot and bring them back. Other nights he would get up on top\nof the roof and he would do the arm waving and send somebody over there. Then,\nin addition to the ball boy, there were salespeople that would carry a basket\ncomposed of, the basket would be filled with candies like Baby Ruths and\nButterfingers and Dentyne chewing gum, cigarettes, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7260.0,7290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Chesterfields, Camels, Old\nGolds, a brand called Home Run that was very strong and it was not a big seller.\nCamels were a big seller and Chesterfields and Luckys and Pall Malls. And then\nyou also would have peanuts in the basket. I was one of those salesmen that went\naround. Others that I can remember were Sonny Rosing. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7290.0,7320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember a Coca Cola\nsalesman that just sold Coca Colas only named Milt Sterman who had a brother\nnamed, I'm sorry, it wasn't Milt it was Milt's brother, Bobby Sterman, who lives\nin Miami, is an accountant and Bobby Sterman was one of the leading Coca Cola\nsalesmen. Milt Sterman, as I recall, sold popcorn. Like Bobby, when you sold\ncokes and nothing but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7320.0,7350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cokes, he sold popcorn and nothing but popcorn. The job\nthat I had was carrying that basket with a lot of items. It was a starting\nground to work yourselves up from because if you did a good job with the basket,\nyou then got to sell score cards and you would sell score cards which would be\nlike a program of who's playing, and it would have in there where the team stays\non the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7350.0,7380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"road and the schedule for the upcoming games. You would sell the score\ncards up until about the third inning and then you would go put the score cards\naway if you had any left and you would get a big box of ice cream. You would\ncarry this huge box of ice cream with dry ice in it to keep it from melting and\nyou would then sell ice cream. Then when you worked yourself up from that you\ngot to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7380.0,7410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sell cushions. Cushions was the premier item to sell because it was the\nmost expensive item. It sold for fifteen cents. A customer could buy a cushion\nand sit on it, put it on the wooden seat and he would have, whether he had a\nsoft tucums or a skinny tucums, bony, he would be comfortable by sitting on that\ncushion. 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Alvin Cohen, the late Alvin Cohen, had a tragic\ndeath early as a teenager in an automobile wreck, worked out ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7440.0,7470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there. I think\nArnold Whiteman worked out there. My brother, Buddy Asher, worked out there. So,\nJews were very prominent in the concession business at old Ponce De Leon Park.\nSome of my happy days were spent out there. You get to know the ball players. I\nremember one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7470.0,7500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"day, Charlie Block, who was one of the heroes of the Crackers and\none of my personal heroes and I had asked Charlie if he would come have dinner\nwith us after a double header one Sunday and he agreed to do it. I had told all\nthe people, I lived at a court apartment in those days on Boulevard, 501\nBoulevard ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7500.0,7530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the people there were the Manness', Albert and Sarah Manness, the\nFeldman's, Rosalee and Lou Feldman . . . . Charlie Block came, Charlie and I\nwalked up Ponce De Leon then to Boulevard and we walked up Boulevard after that\nSunday double header. When we got to the apartment, all of the people, it was\nreally a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7530.0,7560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ghetto, it was all Jews living there except one family and they were\nall out sitting on the steps waiting for Charlie to arrive. When Charlie and I\ncame into the middle of the court, they all stood up and cheered. That was such\na wonderful expression of love that they had for this ball player. I think we\ncan move on now.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, you may want to take a minute and describe what ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7560.0,7590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sunday supper was\nlike at your house. That's somewhat of a Jewish occasion, I think. Maybe you\nwant to take just a minute and share a little bit about that, the kind of food\nthat was served or who was usually there.\n\nASHER: Sunday supper at home was different. Sometimes, it might be stuffed\ncabbage. Sometimes it might be mulligan stew which is a stew my mother cooked up\nthat had lots of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7590.0,7620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good vegetables in it. It might be matzo ball soup. It could he\nanything. We didn't serve much fish in those days. Some days we would go out for\nSunday night supper at a great place called the Pig and Whistle. It was on Ponce\nDe Leon near Argonne. Fried ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7620.0,7650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"chicken was one of their specialties and barbecue\nbeef and we would go there some Sunday nights. Sometimes we would go eat with my\naunt and uncle who lived in the Georgian Terrace Hotel for a while and later at\nthe Cox Carlton Hotel. We would have dinner there with them at the hotel. That\nwas always nice.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, the other thing that you said that you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7650.0,7680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wanted to talk a little\nbit about was your experience in the Marine corps and you mentioned two names,\nSobel arid Fryberg.\n\nASHER: I was in Korea during the Korean War and in one of the battles that we\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7680.0,7710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had over there I suffered some wounds and was going to have to be evacuated to a\nnaval hospital in Japan. When I had gotten to Korea, I had known the division\ninformation officer who was a captain named Ben ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7710.0,7740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Price. Ben had, I was going to a\nschool for two weeks back at division headquarters. I was attached to an\ninfantry battalion, but I was sent, back to go to a school for two weeks at\ndivision headquarters and while I was back there, Ben Price invited me to his\ntent to spend the night with him and to talk about old times since he was with\nthe Associated Press in Atlanta while I was with the Atlanta ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7740.0,7770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Constitution early\nin 1951. While I was in Ben's tent, he said, \"I think you need to meet the\nJewish chaplain whose name is Sam Sobel. I'll get him on the phone.\" He called\nSam and Chaplain Sobel came over and we talked, and we spent about an hour\ntogether talking. I didn't see, that was probably ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7770.0,7800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in October, and I didn't see\nChaplain Sobel again until the time that I was wounded and that was in February.\nWhen I got back to the battalion first aid station, they told me that I had a\nbroken leg and that I would be evacuated to hospital ship and go on to the\nhospital in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7800.0,7830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Japan. Just before they were putting me on a stretcher to put me on\na helicopter to go to the hospital ship, Chaplain Sobel came up and he said, \"Is\nthere anything I can do for you.\" I said, \"Yes, you can do two things. One, you\ncan make sure that the Marine Corp does not send a telegram home saying I've\nbeen ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7830.0,7860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wounded. My father has heart trouble and we have been extremely close since\nthe day I can first remember, and I wouldn't want him to be concerned. If you\ncould stop that and write a letter to him and let him know that I have a\nfractured leg but otherwise I'm fine and I'm going to be ok. The other thing you\ncan do is get me a bottle of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7860.0,7890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"scotch.\" He said that he would see what he could\ndo. That was at night. The next morning, when they were getting ready to load me\non the helicopter, Chaplain Sobel came up and he said, \"I just want you to know\nthat there will be no telegram sent to your parents. I have already written a\nletter and have already mailed it telling them that you are in good spirit and\nthat you are going to be ok and that they should not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7890.0,7920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"worry.\" As they were\nlifting the stretcher to put me on the helicopter he said, \"And here's one other\nthing.\" He handed me this bottle of scotch which I put under the blanket that\nwas covering me. Then I got to the hospital ship and the first thing they wanted\nto do was take a look at me and they ripped off that blanket and the first thing\nthey saw was me holding onto the bottle of scotch. They wanted to take it away\nbut somehow, I was able to persuade them ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7920.0,7950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to let me keep it. I did not think I\nmight ever see Sam Sobel again. That was in 1953. 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She agreed\nand we went to Temple Emanu-El Friday night expecting a normal Friday night\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=7980.0,8010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"service. When we got there, I noticed on the bulletin board it said, \"Friday\nnight is military night.\" I was still in the Marine Corp reserve at the time. I\nwas quite pleased that there was going to be a military night. We took our seat\nin the sanctuary. 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As I turned to look, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8040.0,8070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I saw that one of the chaplains\nwas U.S. Naval Captain Samuel Sobel who had been the chaplain who had looked\nafter me while I was in Korea.\n\nDIAMOND: I hope you took him out and bought him a drink of scotch.\n\nASHER: That was a wonderful experience and we got to talk after that at length.\nI really jumped ahead of the story because, as I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8070.0,8100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say, that was 1965, I actually\nsaw Sam Sobel in 1953 and this is how it happened. I went on from that naval\nhospital ship to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan and I stayed there\nfrom February of 1953 to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8100.0,8130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"April of 1953 at which time they determined that I\nwould be sent back for further rehabilitation at a naval hospital in California.\nThe U.S. Naval Hospital in Mirror Island, California and I would not be going\nback to Korea. I viewed that with mixed emotions. On the one hand, I wanted to\ngo back with my men who were fine marines, and I was proud to be with them but\non the other hand, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8130.0,8160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I realized that I was fortunate because I wasn't going to be\nshot at anymore. At any rate, since I was ordered back to Mirror Island, I went\nand I stayed there for two months, from April to June, at which time, in the\nmiddle of June I was released from the hospital and declared fit to go back to\nactive duty. They offered me any duty assignment that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8160.0,8190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wanted. I had to report\nin July. That would have left me with less than six months of duty, I was to get\nout in November, so, they wanted me to go on the east coast of the United States\nsince that's where I would be released to home from. I chose Parris Island and\nthey said, \"We'll give you any place on the east coast, why would you choose\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8190.0,8220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Parris Island?\" I said, \"Because I took my basic training at Quantico, Virginia\nand I haven I been to Parris Island and I'd hate to get out of the Marine Corp\nwithout having said I was at Parris Island.\"\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, we're back after that phone call and you just mentioned that you\ndid not want to leave the Marine Corp without having been to Parris Island.\n\nASHER: That's correct, and I was really anxious to go there. The commanding\nofficer at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8220.0,8250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"base in Mirror Island, California when I got released from the\nhospital there, he said, \"I don't know why you want to go there when you could\ngo to Quantico but if you want to go to Parris Island, that's where you'll go.\"\nThat's where I went. I treasured the four months that I spent there first as a\nplatoon commander and later as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8250.0,8280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"company commander. The highlight of the visit,\nthe tour at Parris Island, again was going to services on Friday night. As I\nwent to the service on Friday night, unbeknownst to me, the Jewish chaplain that\nwas conduction the service was Captain ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8280.0,8310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sam Sobel who was the same chaplain who\nwas the chaplain at the first marine division in Korea with me. Sam was so nice,\nduring the service he had many nice things to say about me and I think, above\nand beyond what I deserved. He said a lot of nice things. Later on, at Parris\nIsland I talked a great deal with Sam who was a master ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8310.0,8340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mason. I was getting\nready to go through the Masons. My father was a Mason, my brother was a Mason. I\nwanted to become a Mason. I wanted to go through Fulton Lodge in Atlanta but\nsince I was still at Parris Island, they arranged that I could go through as a\ncourtesy candidate at the Masonic Lodge at Port Royal, South Carolina which was\nright ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8340.0,8370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"across the river from Parris Island. That's what I did. I had a good\ncoach. As I got ready for taking my entered apprentice degree from the Masonic\norder, that coach was Chaplain Sam Sobel.\n\nDIAMOND: What a story. What a storyteller as well. You tell a wonderful story.\nWas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8370.0,8400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there anything else you wanted to share about the Marine Corp, in\nparticular, the other person's name was Leonard Fryberg?\n\nASHER: Let's see, one other thing about Chaplain Sobel, he, from Parris Island\nwent to the naval base at Norfolk, Virginia. My sister lived in Norfolk and was\na member of one of the reformed congregations there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8400.0,8430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On days when her rabbi was\nunable to conduct the service, the pinch hitter was Sam Sobel. Sam got to know\nmy sister well and, of course, he told her all the stories about Korea and about\nParris Island. It really got to be that he became a member of the family almost.\nI feel blessed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8430.0,8460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"having known a man like Sam Sobel. I wanted to mention another\nMarine and even though Sam was, there are no Marine Corp chaplains, they're all\nNavy chaplains but Sam is a Marine because he served with the Marines, and he\nchose to wear the Marine Corp uniform rather than the Navy uniform. I was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8460.0,8490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"extremely active in the Marine Corp reserve in Atlanta and in the Marine Corp\nReserve Officers Association which was more of a, both a professional and a\nsocial association of Marine Corp reserve officers. We used to put on a lot of\nMarine Corp programs and then we would follow those up with some socials. During\nthe time that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8490.0,8520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was president of the Greater Atlanta Marine Corp Reserve\nOfficers Association, the director of the Marine Corp Reserve was a brigadier\ngeneral named Leonard Fryberg. I really got the biggest kick out of that, that I\nhad the opportunity to put on programs in which he would be involved. He would\ncome down from Marine Corp headquarters ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8520.0,8550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and speak here. Then we would have\ndinners. Sometimes I would go to Marine Corp headquarters, and I would be able\nto see him. As he retired from the Marine Corp, we stayed in contact with each\nother. General Fryberg was so well respected by everyone that I knew in the\nMarine Corp and most ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8550.0,8580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everyone said that he would have been a perfect man to be a\nfour-star general, not just a one star general. Since you can only have one four\nstars, the pickings are very difficult, and he wasn't picked but he did an\noutstanding job as director of the Marine Corp reserve. Incidentally, during\nWorld War II, it was Captain Leonard Fryberg, and he was one of the technical\ndirectors of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8580.0,8610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of the all-time great Marine Corp movies called Guadalcanal\nDiary. I didn't know this, and he never told me that, but I was watching on TNT\none night and they showed a 1942 film called Guadalcanal Diary and I remember\nLloyd Nolan was in it and just tons of names that we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8610.0,8640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would all remember from the\nforties. As it gave all the screen credits, it said, \"Technical direction,\nCaptain Leonard Fryberg, USMC.\"\n\nDIAMOND: It's fun to see somebody you know name in print like that. Alright, let\nme stop the tape for just a minute and see what direction you want to go from\nhere . . . . Alright, we're going to start back now, your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8640.0,8670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thoughts on the\ninsurance business, your beginnings, today and whatever.\n\nASHER: I was really blessed going in the insurance business. It was the last\nbusiness that I would have ever dreamed that I would have gone into. In fact, I\nsaid I wouldn't go in the life insurance business. I had been working in the\nsports department of the Atlanta Journal for six years. We had just had our\nthird child. At the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8670.0,8700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time, I was making $135.00 a week. My wife, Adele, was\nworking as a lab technician at Crawford Long Hospital. I knew that unless I\ncould become sports editor, I would not be able to earn enough money to feed my\nfamily. The alternative was to go out of town and to become a sports ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8700.0,8730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"editor in\nanother city which I did not want to do because Atlanta is my home, and I didn't\nwant to leave it. I knew I had to leave the paper. I had been thinking about it\nfor a long time and I came home one day, and I decided to share it with my wife,\nAdele. I said, \"Sweeties, I'm going to have to leave the paper.\" She said,\n\"Well, what will you do?\" And I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8730.0,8760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"said, \"I don't know. I'll do anything except\nsell life insurance.\" I made that statement because several times while I was in\nthe middle of fighting a deadline trying to get a story written at the journal,\nI would get a telephone call, not from a coach to give me information to put in\nmy story but from a life insurance agent ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8760.0,8790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anxious to sell me insurance. Those\ninterruptions made a lasting effect upon me, so, I said, \"That I'm not going to\ndo it. That will be the one thing that I will not do.\" So, then I told her that\nI thought maybe ray best bet would be public relations. I put an ad in the\nJournal Constitution's Sunday paper saying, \"The best of everything,\" that was\nthe headline. I talked about writing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8790.0,8820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"skills and speaking skills because I had a\nradio show that I did at WSB and a TV show that I was one of the sports writers\non a TV show at WSB. I did a lot of sports promotions for the Journal, producing\nAll Star football and baseball games. I thought I had a lot of public relations\nskills, so, that's why I said the best of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8820.0,8850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everything. I put that ad in the paper\non a Sunday and I told Adele, \"I really feel like we're going to get a ton of\nreplies from this because it's a well written ad, even if I have to say so\nmyself, and there's going to be a lot of PR and ad firms that are going to want\nmy services. I kind of feel sorry for the postman for all the mail he's going to\nhave to bring around next week.\" Well, next week ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8850.0,8880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came and at the end of the week\nI had a total of two replies. One was from New York Life Insurance Company , and\none was the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. I took both letters, and\nI threw them in the trash, and I said, \"I'll find something.\" Then I began\nwriting, I wrote the telephone company, I wrote ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8880.0,8910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the power company, I wrote\nadvertisements, responded to advertisements in the Sunday Journal Constitution\non the display ad page. I remember writing the Duke Power Company up in North\nCarolina. I remember writing General Electric. Nobody wanted this great sports\npromoter as their PR person. So, I just said, \"To hell with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8910.0,8940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it.\" I went on doing\nmy job. One day I was covering a meeting of the Atlanta Touchdown Club and on\nthe way to the meeting I ran into a young man named Buck Wiley who had been a\nTine football player at Georgia Tech and had graduated a few years earlier. Buck\nsaid to me, \"How are things at the paper?\" I said, \"Buck, they're fine except\nI've got to leave. I can't make enough money. I need to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8940.0,8970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"get a new career going.\"\nThat night, I got a phone call from Buck Wiley's insurance agent whose name was\nCarol Berry. Carol said, \"I understand that you want to leave the paper.\" I\nsaid, \"Yes.\" He told me that he was with the Home Life of New York, and he'd\nlove to talk with me about coming with home life. I said. \"Carol, thank you for\ncalling, if there's one thing, I'm not going to do it's sell life insurance.\"\nThat was the end of that. Well, Carol ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=8970.0,9000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Berry called me once a week for the next\ntwo months. He was always a gentleman when he called. He was always pleasant,\nnever railed on a deadline. One day he called, and he said, \"Dirt you ever hear\nof a man named Bill Dudley?\" I said, \"I certainly had.\" He was an All American\nat the University of Virginia and a great fullback for the Washington Redskins.\nCarol said, \"Well, his brother lives here and I think you can get a good story\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9000.0,9030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from him about Bill Dudley.\" I said, \"Good, how can we meet him?\" Carol said, \"I\nknow him, and I'll get us an appointment.\" I said, \"Fine.\" Carol came by the\nJournal one day and picked me up and drove me to Jim Dudley's office. When we\ngot there, I looked at the sign and the sign said, \"Home Life Insurance Company\nof New York.\" I said, \"Carol, what, are you doing to me?\" He said, \"This is\nwhere Jim Dudley is. He's the manager of this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9030.0,9060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"office.\" I said, \"Okay, but I'm\nnot going to talk about life insurance.\" I went in and Jim Dudley told me about\nhis brother Bill Dudley of the Washington Redskins, and I got a good story.\nBefore I was leaving, Jim said, \"I think there are two people here you may know.\nYou might want to say hello to them.\" I said, \"Who are they?\" He said, \"Moose\nMiller and Jack Jordan.\" Moose Miller was an All-American ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9060.0,9090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"halfback at Cornell\n[University] who grew up in Decatur [Georgia] and played for Decatur. High\nSchool and Jack Jordan was an All-State High School player at Boys High and an\nAll-Southeastern Conference football player for Georgia Tech. I said, \"I'd love\nto speak to those two people.\" So, I did. That was really great. They were two\nof my past heroes. As Carol Berry was driving me back to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9090.0,9120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Journal, I was\nthinking, \"Well, if those two guys are in the business, maybe it's not all bad.\"\nI got home and I slept on it and the next day. I called my daddy and talked to\nhim about it and daddy said, \"Why don't you talk to Milton Cromhime [sp] who was\ndaddy's insurance man and who was the man I had bought the only policy I had\nfrom. Milton was with Travelers. I called Milton up, incidentally, Milton\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9120.0,9150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cromhime wrote me every week I was in Korea. He was just a wonderful person. I\nhad a great deal of love for him and respect for him. I called Milton up and I\nasked him if I could come visit. He said, \"Yes.\" I went over to his house, and I\nsaid, \"Milton, what do you think about me and the life insurance business?\" He\nsaid, \"I don't know but there's one man in Atlanta that will know, and I'll get\nyou an appointment with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9150.0,9180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"him.\" That man was a man named Harold Dillan who was the\ngeneral agent for the National Life of Vermont. He got me the appointment with\nMr. Dillan. 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I remember Mr. Dillan saying, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9510.0,9540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"How much money\ndo you make?\" I told him, \"$600.00 a month.\" He said, \"We'll start you at\n$1,000.00.\" I said, \"I don't want $1,000.00. All I'd need, since they let me\nhave a company car, so, I won't have that and I'll have car expense, maybe you\ncould start me at $700.00 a month.\" That's what he started me at. That's how I\ngot started in the life insurance business.\n\nDIAMOND: Alright, we'll running very close to the end of the tape. If you want\nto say a few words, we've got maybe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9540.0,9570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/320","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two to three minutes.\n\nASHER: I'd like to credit Ed Jackal who gave me, Ed Jackal who had been a\nPhysical Ed director of the Jewish Community Center and gave up that job to go\nin the life insurance business. He gave me a great idea that he thought I could\nuse to sell life insurance and it sure helped me get started. I'm indebted a\ngreat deal to Ed Jackal, former director, Phys Ed director of the Atlanta Jewish\nCommunity ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9570.0,9600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Center. Also, to somebody else, to Max Rabkin who was with Mutual of\nNew York and is now retired. I was making a call one day and I saw Max waiting\non a streetcar or bus. I stopped and I picked him up and I said, \"Max, where can\nI take you?\" He said, \"I've got a rail out. In Westend to sell a $5,000.00\npolicy.\" Max had been in the business for about twenty-five or thirty years\nthen. I said, \"Max. you've been in the business for twenty-five to thirty years,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9600.0,9630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you must, have a ton of renewals. Why are you going all the way out to west end\nto sell $5,000.00 policy?\" He said, \"Stop the car.\" I stopped the car and he\nlooked at me and said, \"If you ever get so big that you think you can't sell a\n$5000.00 policy, you ought to get out of the business.\" That made a tremendous\nimpression on me, and I never did get that big. I will gladly sell a $5,000.00\nor a $2,000 or anything I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9630.0,9660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"can sell, and I thank Max Rabkin and Ed Jackel for\nthose two tips of wisdom.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, it's been a wonderful two interviews and I think we have maybe\nanother minute if you wanted to say anything else before we sign off.\n\nASHER: I really don't know what to say. Von asked me about, the cancer tiling. 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I really think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9690.0,9720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/transcript/40201/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that\nthat did as much good as whatever the doctors did, and they certainly did a lot.\n\nDIAMOND: You have my wishes for a long and healthy life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=9720.0,9750.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/annotation_set/894","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Eugene, Asher [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/annotation_set/894/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEugene S. Asher (1928-2015) was born in Atlanta and educated at the University of Georgia where he received a degree in Journalism. After college, he built a career in sports journalism with the Associated Press and Atlanta Journal. After changing his career to life insurance sales, in 1990 he founded the Jewish Georgian, a newspaper focusing on Jews in Georgia. He was awarded a purple heart for his service in the Marines in the Korean War.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/annotation_set/894/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hebrew Orphans’ Home was located at 478 Washington Street in Atlanta, Georgia. The residence facility was open from 1876 to 1930. It was originally called the Hebrew Orphans’ Asylum and was originally an actual orphanage. In 1901, the name was changed to the Hebrew Orphans’ Home. Then its services phased into placing children in foster home care and helping with adoptions instead of an actual orphans' home, during which time it was called the Jewish Family and Children's Bureau (and another variation—Jewish Children's Services). Finally it got out of the children's institutional care business entirely. In 1988, the organization’s mission changed and it became the Jewish Educational Loan Fund (JELF) with the goal of providing low-interest post-secondary education loans for Jewish students.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/annotation_set/894/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAtlanta Public Schools began in 1872 with three elementary schools, and Boys' High and Girls' High for white students, along with two elementary schools for Black students. A department of manual training slowly developed at Boys’ High. Some considered it a better idea to create a separate school. In 1909 the Technological High School (Tech High), opened for boys interested in applied sciences in electricity, automobiles, aviation, and manufacturing. The school closed in 1947 when it merged with Boys' High to become Henry W. Grady High School (as of 2022, Midtown High School).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/annotation_set/894/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBoys’ High School was founded in 1924. It later merged with Tech High and became coeducational and became known as Henry W. Grady High School. It is part of the Atlanta Public School System. It has had many notable alumni, including S. Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A. It is located in Midtown Atlanta. In 2020, the Atlanta School Board voted to rename the school “Midtown High School” beginning in the 2021-2022 school year.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80266/file/168388/annotation_set/894/annotation/330","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGirls’ High School was one of seven schools as part of the original Atlanta public school system. It opened in 1872, and was the only public school in the area exclusively for girls. In 1947, Atlanta high schools became co-educational, and Girls’ High was renamed Roosevelt High School, which in turn closed in 1985 when it merged with Hoke Smith High School to become Southside High School (now Maynard H. Jackson High School). 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