Pierre Pelham, the Harvard-trained lawyer from Chatom who served two terms in the Alabama Senate and became its president pro tem, died at 80. Friends and rivals recalled a formidable and elusive figure.
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Bubba, Mayer, Mr. Mitchell: Friends Recall a Mobile Life of Outsized Reach
Friends and colleagues remembered Mayer ‘Bubba’ Mitchell, the Mobile developer and philanthropist who died at 74, as a man whose influence ran from Leinkauf School to the White House.
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Bernie Dittman, the Man Who Made WABB the Sound of Mobile, Dies at 79
For nearly 50 years Bernie Dittman ran WABB as an independent family station, turning down offers from the giants of corporate radio. Colleagues remembered a fierce competitor and a loyal boss.
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The Gonzo Journalist Who Wrote a Book in a Mobile Apartment
After Hunter S. Thompson’s death in February 2005, Mobile friends recalled the months the gonzo journalist spent writing a book in a borrowed apartment on Government Street.
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The Best Year and the Worst: A Mobile Broker Remembers November 1958
Part six of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: the year the author’s production soared was also the year he lost the mother who had raised three children on a secretary’s salary.