"The Best Times" article - Dean Pope was a reporter for the Commercial Appeal in the summer of 1964

Robert Coker

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Sep 3, 2025, 6:54:42 PMSep 3

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Page R-5 | e-Edition | thebesttimes.com

Dean is quoted in the article.

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Paul Sisco

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Sad story, Robert. We were fortunate to be among kind people at Training and Central. Dean and Kit are our two Reporters. I still try to read at least one printed newspaper a day. Today I read 3, the Knoxville News-Sentinel, USA Today, and Focus, what I call the “Knoxville Republican Rag”, that’s free for the taking at Buddy’s BBQ. It always has a good column by Ray Hill, an historian of politicians who has been helpful to Dean and his son Justin as they complete their biography of Boss Crump. Today’s column by Ray Hill was on George Long, the older brother of the Kingfish.

In Gatlinburg looking at the sun set on the Smokies. Beautiful day. See attached video.

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Margo Macdonald

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Dean, we as a society don’t seem to be able to cope with difference. I remember many a day coming home to find a man eating at the kitchen table who had found a place to eat before catching the next freight. This was in the early 50’s. There were still hobos then, a respectable plan for living outside of society while participating in the traveling society of the train travelers. I was always a little frightened and a little put off by these men, but my grandmother found them as they were. Just a Hobo.

Thanks Robert for sending the article. Margo

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Kittrell Rushing

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Memories

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On Sep 3, 2025, at 8:09 PM, Margo Macdonald <margo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dean, we as a society don’t seem to be able to cope with difference. I remember many a day coming home to find a man eating at the kitchen table who had found a place to eat before catching the next freight. This was in the early 50’s. There were still hobos then, a respectable plan for living outside of society while participating in the traveling society of the train travelers. I was always a little frightened and a little put off by these men, but my grandmother found them as they were. Just a Hobo.

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Dean Pope

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I had completely forgotten about this encounter but I do vividly remember the juxtaposition of the Memphis skyline with his primitive dwelling, I did not know about his last years.

I am sorry to have been so unresponsive recently. Two beloved colleagues for more than fifty years passed away in the last month. Pat Milmo, the ultimate New Yorker, left the white shoe Wall Street firm of Davis Polk to head our real estate practice and to laugh at old Richmond accents, diction and devotion to strange things . But his humor was never cruel. And my dearest friend for a half century, Judge T.S. Ellis, III, passed away after a long illness. I had a wonderful but painful visit with him two days before he died. Tim was an engineer, a philosopher, a carrier fighter pilot, and a sometimes controversial judge. He was not nice to lawyers

who were not prepared. You can find several of his obituaries on the internet. He particularly enjoyed overseeing the annual immigrant naturalization ceremony each Fourth of July.

Enjoy your friends every day.

Dean

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