Table of Contents September 2012
September 2012
Cover story
Run up the score
Tom Hamilton was a hard man. He played halfback and quarterback on the undefeated Navy team that won a national championship in 1926. He led a come-from-behind touchdown drive, then drop-kicked the extra point that tied Army in one of the best football games ever played. A pioneer naval aviator, he flew scout, patrol, torpedo and transport planes and, in World War II, commanded aircraft carriers in the Pacific. But nothing, not lunging linemen or crashing kamikazes, scared him the way television in its infancy did. “We are dealing with a terrific force like a powerful wind of gale velocity,” the retired rear admiral warned the 1951 convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. “We are already feeling the first breezes of this hurricane.”
Features
Moving furniture
Cache a check
Photo Feature
Pier into the future
The new Jennette's Pier preserves a pastime the old one, and those like it, nurtured. “As recently as the mid-1990s, North Carolina had 36 — a quarter of piers from the tip of Maine to south Texas,” General Manager Mike Remige says. “By the early 2000s, that had dropped to 18. The culture is disappearing.” Reopened in May 2011, Jennette’s Pier helps hold the line as soaring real-estate values and vicious storms claim others.
Departments
Up Front
It's just part of the story.
NC Trend
How the economy turns.
Free & Clear
John Hood examines how the state's economy stacks up.
Capital Goods
Tide is turning in Tar Heel politics.
Regional Report
Eastern Triangle Triad Charlotte Western
