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...first glance there seems to be something badly awry in Emily Hahn's choice of 18th Century Novelist Fanny Burney as the subject for a biography. Miss Burney kept a journal which frequently tells how the turn of the talk had forced her to dart from a room with blushing cheeks. She would have run like a deer from her cigar-smoking biographer, who, in China to Me, documented her position as one of the most uninhibited girls on the China Coast...
Miss Hahn has always written direct, and sometimes excessively frank accounts of the whole substance of her globe-ranging life; Miss Burney produced her first novel while living quietly at home with father. Shy, mousy Fanny was, in fact, the pioneer of the monstrous regiment of sentimental domestic novels written for ladies, by ladies, and about ladies & gentlemen-the sort of novel that melts in the mind the way home-made fudge melts in the mouth...
Last week the jittery community suffered a further shock. In Meridian Hills, wealthy food broker Herschel Burney came home one night, found his 39-year-old wife, Mary Lois, dead on a bed, her face half blown away by a shotgun blast. Her murderer got away...
Died. Paul Burney Johnson, 63, Governor of Mississippi; of a heart ailment; in Hattiesburg, Miss. A farmer's son, handsome, 6 ft. 3 in. Johnson rose from teacher, Circuit Court judge and Congressman to Governor in 1939-with the support of Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. He was famed in Mississippi's bizarre politics as the choice of the "runt-pig" people, he tried to stem lynchings, left the state a surplus approaching...
William J. Burney, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Iowa, Visiting Lecturer on Accounting...