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...trail of lynch law led from the mob murder of four Negroes on a lonely Georgia roadside (TIME, Aug. 5) to a Mississippi bayou deep in the land of Bilbo. There it was marked by the battered corpse of a Negro tenant farmer floating in the scum...
...newcomer to prefabs, Cajun Jack is no newcomer to the plywood and lumber industry. He has been in & out of it ever since he took solemn leave of the seven pigs, two mules, 37 chickens and 13 human beings with whom he had shared an abandoned boxcar on Teche Bayou and set out, at 12, to fend for himself. He became a lumber grader, a Wells-Fargo messenger, a medicine-show spieler in "Tincup, Miss.", a silo builder in Montana, a potato digger in Idaho, a sheepherder in Colorado, before he again settled down in lumber...
...months grim-faced Cajun shrimpers practiced on the bayous, in their tricky, pencil-shaped boats. The Cajuns of Louisiana's lower marshlands take their yearly pirogue race as seriously as Kentucky takes its Derby. This week on sultry Bayou Barataria, the 29 strongest paddlers lined up for the start...
...Emile was in the race, too, more for family support than anything else. They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five-time champion. Along the soggy bayou shores, excited Cajuns cheered the Creppels or the Billiots, depending on whose kin they were...
...Pretty" numbers like Blue Bayou and a silhouetted ballet by Dancers Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine aim for, and perfectly achieve, the qualities of dime-store and gift-shoppe art. As such they have great skill and a certain naive charm; but only genuine lovers of that kind of art can genuinely enjoy them. More likely to please everybody...