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...world record of 294 m.p.h. Wedell-Williams is a unique combination consisting of one-eyed, tousle-mopped "Jimmy" Wedell, 33, Texas bartender's son, onetime barnstormer; and rich, suave, happy-go-lucky Harry Palmerton Williams, son of the late Louisiana cypress tycoon Frank Williams. To the devoted Cajun and Negro swampers of Patterson, La., the one-street milltown over which he and his wife (onetime Film Actress Marguerite Clark) reign in baronial style, "Mister Harry" is known as "the Speed Kid." He had already made himself a local god with fast horses, fast automobiles, speed boats, when...
...forty years ago, he had gone to Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) to be a member of its English department after teaching for eleven years at Johns Hopkins. He admitted he wished to "write a lyrical story of Louisiana life." He visited Louisiana bayous, talked to Creoles and Cajun folk, watched them at work in sugar-houses. Last week Dr. Uhler's cane juice was seething, fermenting angrily...
Dealing with the career of an uncouth but righteous and ambitious Cajun who makes good at Louisiana State, Cane Juice is earnestly, sometimes ably written. Like many another contemporary novel of student life, it introduces toping and lechery. There are observations on the sugar industry (Louisiana State has an Audubon Sugar School) and in the end the hero wins a refined girl ("union of sweet nurtured cane with the rough stock of the wilderness") and is indicated as a potential sugar tycoon...