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Newsmen huddled on cold (10°), windy (40 m.p.h.) Mt. Charleston, nearly 50 miles away, muttered with frustration. The blast was a disappointment: the sky lit up with a dull red glow for a second; the mushroom cloud was hidden in the dark overcast; the sound bounced over Mt. Charleston completely...
...represent themselves to each other as awfully poor. "I could be happy with you," they duet, "if you could be happy with me." Between whiles, girls wearing frocks with waistlines near their shins mince about squealing genteel idiocies ; everybody makes remarks of a piercing obviousness; couples tango and Charleston and go in for every form of jazz-age contortions...
Arkansas, it seemed, could also tell time. In Fayetteville (pop. 17,000), five pupils took their places in the high school as if they had been going there for years. And last week Charleston, Ark. (pop. 900) quietly let it be known that eleven Negroes had been peacefully attending the white school since opening day, Aug. 23. But though such peace and quiet were not exactly the exception in the South, they were far from being the rule. Among developments reported last week...
Tradition Shattered. Most of Burnet Maybank's ancestors were low-country planters. Senator Maybank's father was a Charleston physician, and Maybank grew up in a stately colonial house in Charleston. After World War I, Maybank became a cotton exporter, then a Charleston alderman and mayor. He shattered the modern tradition that low-country aristocrats could not win the votes of up-country farmers; in 27 years of politics he never lost an election, was elected to the Senate three times, and was unopposed for reelection this year...
Maybank was not the last of the Southern aristocrats in the Senate. Virginia's Harry Byrd is still very much alive. And as Burnet Rhett Maybank was buried in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery last week, South Carolinians could remember how deep the stream of family runs in the low country. At the graveside was Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr., 30, a rising young member of the state legislature...