Biography:

Journalist, humorist,  legislator. Born– July 25, 1904 in Thomasville, Ala. Parents– Austico Busbee and Lula Mae (Hall) Tucker. Education– attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Managing editor Thomasville Echo, later called Thomasville Times, 1926-1959. Wrote a column, “Rambling Roses and Flying Bricks,” that was published in some 40 newspapers and magazines, 1934-1964. Alabama state legislator, 1930-34, 1938-50. Chairman of state Democratic Executive Committee.  Elected to Alabama Newspaper Hall of Honor, 1972. Died April 7, 1964.

Source:

Owen’s The Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

All the Nuts Aren’t on Trees. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1960.

How Not to Worry about the Love Life of Spiders. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1959.

Rambling Roses and Flying Bricks. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1958.