Grizzard felt this invalidated any charge of racism. Grizzard, for his part, contended that the arbitrator did not understand the newspaper business, and he pointed out that he had replaced Banks with Thom Greer, a writer who was also African-American. Although the newspaper, under editor Jim Hoge, supported Grizzard, a federal arbitrator reinstated Banks, and he criticized Grizzard as "racially insensitive". His tenure included a controversy involving the removal of several news columns written by Lacy Banks, the Sun-Times ' first African-American sports columnist, from the newspaper, which resulted in Banks charging racism against Grizzard and led to Banks's subsequent firing. He later recalled this as the most miserable period of his life. Grizzard then left to become the executive sports editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. His time there included the Marshall University football team tragedy and the Journal 's coverage of Hank Aaron's 715th home run. The executive editor of the Journal, Jim Minter, said that had Grizzard stayed there, he would be remembered today as one of the great newspaper editors of the 20th century. Before graduating with a bachelor's degree in journalism, Grizzard moved on to Atlanta, joining the Atlanta Journal, and becoming the youngest-ever executive sports editor of the Journal at the age of 23. He studied journalism, but he shunned the school newspaper in favor of the independent Athens Daily News. During his time in Athens, he became an avid Georgia Bulldogs fan. Grizzard attended the University of Georgia in Athens, where he was a member of the Sigma Pi fraternity and Gridiron Secret Society. Grizzard recounted his often frustrating relationship with his father in My Daddy Was a Pistol and I'm a Son of a Gun, and blamed his father's difficulties in civilian life on what at the time was called "battle fatigue" and is now called post-traumatic stress disorder, saying, "Daddy came home from his second war" (the Korean War) "a complete mess, the Army did nothing to help him, and he died young." He began his writing early, publishing stories of his Little League team in the nearby Newnan Times-Herald, Newnan, Georgia. was young, and mother and son moved in with Christine's parents in Moreland, Georgia, where Lewis spent the rest of his childhood. left his wife Christine, a school teacher, when Lewis Jr. His father, Lewis Grizzard, Sr., was a soldier in the United States Army who served in both World War II and the Korean War, and was a sole survivor of a Chinese attack that wiped out his platoon. Grizzard was born in Fort Benning, Georgia. Grizzard was also the stepbrother of the Southern humorist Ludlow Porch. If Love Were Oil, I'd Be About a Quart Low), politics, and health, especially heart health.
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Although much of his comedy discussed the South and Grizzard's personal and professional lives, it was also a commentary on issues prevalent throughout America, including relationships between men and women (e.g. Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night), expanded versions of his stand-up comedy routines ( I Haven't Understood Anything Since 1962), and the autobiographical If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground. Grizzard also published a total of 25 books, including collections of his columns (e.g. He was also a popular stand-up comedian and lecturer. Although he spent his early career as a newspaper sports writer and editor, becoming the sports editor of the Atlanta Journal at age 23, he is much better known for his humorous newspaper columns in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (Octo– March 20, 1994) was an American writer and humorist, known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the American South.
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