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SMITH COLUMN: Contour Coke bottle
Owing to the generosity of one Fred Butler, the Coca-Cola impresario in my neighborhood, I got to enjoy the six and one-half ounce Coke in ...
Loran Smith, Author at LaGrange Daily News
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SMITH COLUMN: What Congress can learn from football teams
Last Monday night in Indianapolis, I watched the Georgia football team quietly enter the locker room and go through their routine of pre-game preparation.
by Loran Smith, Thursday, January 13, 2022 10:30 am
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SMITH COLUMN: The allure of Miami
It is the water that makes Miami so alluring. That has been the case since post World War II when air conditioning, mosquito control and ...
by Loran Smith, Saturday, January 8, 2022 10:30 am
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SMITH COLUMN: One More Time for Georgia against Alabama
We begin with sterling appreciation for Georgia’s coaching clinic disposal of the current Big Ten champions on New Year’s Eve, a heady conquering of a ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, January 6, 2022 9:30 am
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SMITH COLUMN: Hometown of Wrightsville
WRIGHTSVILLE – This laidback town of 2,237 is one of the many economically challenged communities across our state (and also the country). Over the years, ...
by Loran Smith, Friday, December 31, 2021 10:35 am
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SMITH COLUMN: Memories of the Orange Bowl
MIAMI – In the Sixties, the Orange Bowl became the preferred holiday attraction for most college football teams except for those in the Pac Ten ...
by Loran Smith, Thursday, December 30, 2021 6:04 pm
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TURES COLUMN: Remembering simpler times
There is hardly anything home-made anymore. Everything, for the most part, is store bought unless you are into internet shopping which can bring to your ...
by Loran Smith, Friday, December 3, 2021 10:30 am
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SMITH COLUMN: Unincorporated Sautee-Nacoochee
SAUTEE-NACOOCHEE – This is an unincorporated community which brings about a salient point. If you took a year attempting to find your way into all ...
by Loran Smith, Saturday, November 27, 2021 10:30 am
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LORAN SMITH COLUMN: Who is the greatest coach in college football history?
There would be no way to establish conclusively who could claim certain superlatives if you attempted to definitively identify who was/is the greatest coach in ...
by Loran Smith, Wednesday, November 10, 2021 11:18 am
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SMITH COLUMN: Is this the greatest defense UGA has ever had?
Forty-one years ago, in early November, Bulldog partisans were tipping their Red & Black caps to Georgia Tech, an expression of thanks to the Jackets ...