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...Fanny Burney mentions him. Horace Walpole mentions him. Boswell mentions him. But Thomas Blake Clark's handsomely bound and printed book is the first full-length account of Omai (pronounced Oh, My!), the Polynesian Islander, who for two years (1774-76) was "the lyon of lyons" of London drawing rooms...
...younger days Editor Sullens sometimes used his fists. Now he is 62 and for a decade he has stuck to pen pizen, made loquacious Mississippi Governor Paul Burney Johnson holler that he come out and fight. Paul Johnson has been barbecued and fricasseed in sometimes as many as six News editorials a day for the last nine years...
...more than 20 years four men have played ring-around-a-rosy in Mississippi politics, now denouncing, now supporting each other. Hardened to sudden shifts, Mississippi "peckerwoods"* have listened for two decades with comparatively straight faces to Senators Byron Patton Harrison and Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, to Paul Burney Johnson and Martin Sennett Conner. In 1935 they began listening to another man, Hugh Lawson White, and elected him Governor, some say, for the novelty of a new political face...
Last week came the run-off Democratic primary for the Governorship. Once more the lineups were twisted unbelievably. Now Pat Harrison was supporting Mike Conner, a man he had denounced up and down the State in 1936. Now "The Man" Bilbo was supporting Paul Burney Johnson, whom he had denounced sporadically ever since 1918, when Johnson whipped him in a race for a House seat. Governor White laid off, laid cables for 1940 when he wants Bilbo's Senate seat...
...LOVED No MORE-Arthur Bernon Tourtellot - Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Life of Fanny Burney-friend of Johnson, Garrick and Burke, author of the famed Evelina and lady-in-waiting to George III's crocodile-mouthed Queen Charlotte. A sound enough biography, though the writing could be livelier...