Business writer; journalist. \u00a0Born– February 25, 1915, Birmingham. Parents– Sam Cross and Mabel Elon (Canterbury) Farrar. Married–Marigrace Salyer. \u00a0Children– three. Education– Attended Birmingham-Southern College, and Emory University; Millsaps College, A.B., 1940. Secretary for the Corinth, Miss. Chamber of Commerce, 1940-1941; Johnson City, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce, 1941-1942; editor of Nation’s Business, 1942-1943; assistant to the Chairman of Republican National Committee, 1943-1944; correspondent for Gannett National Service, 1945-1946; free-lance writer after 1946; publisher of American Surveyor, Photogrammitrist, and Author and Journalist. Correspondent for several business journals. Died September 21, 1970.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n Conflict of Interest. New York; Bartholomew House, 1970.<\/p>\n How to Make $18,000 a Year Free-Lance Writing. New York; Hawthorn, 1957.<\/p>\n The Sins of Sandra Shaw. New York; Signet Books, 1958.<\/p>\n Successful Writers and How They Work. New York; Hawthorn, 1959.<\/p>\n Washington Lowdown. New York; Signet Books, 1956.<\/p>\n Whatever Happened to the White Backlash? New York; Macfadden, 1965.<\/p>\n Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n America’s Fifty Foremost Business Leaders.\u00a0 B.C. Forbes, 1947.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Business writer; journalist. \u00a0Born– February 25, 1915, Birmingham. Parents– Sam Cross and Mabel Elon (Canterbury) Farrar. Married–Marigrace Salyer. \u00a0Children– three. Education– Attended Birmingham-Southern College, and Emory University; Millsaps College, A.B., 1940. Secretary for the Corinth, Miss. Chamber of Commerce, 1940-1941; Johnson City, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce, 1941-1942; editor of Nation’s Business, 1942-1943; assistant to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7605,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}