The Press: Keen Keen

James Keen, 26-year-old photographer for the Associated Press, has a reputation for always striving for the unusual. Assigned to cover the Ohio-Mississippi flood last January, he spied a refugee Arkansas mother suckling her baby in a relief station, took a human interest picture called "Lowland Madonna" which won him wide praise and Editor & Publisher honors. Three weeks ago Photographer Keen was rushed to Warren County, Ga., whose farmers complained that Glascock County cotton growers were wooing away their Negro cotton pickers with higher wages and whiskey. Warren County Sheriff G. P....

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