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Harvard will remember the 300th anniversary of the death of its name-sake today at noon, when President Conant, Jerome D. Green '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and Samuel Eliot Morison '08, official historian of the University, visit the old Charleston burying ground and lay a wreath on the monument of John Harvard...
...primary, gave Senator Smith some chance of winning a majority on the first vote, next week. If he wins then or later, he will owe thanks to two friends of Franklin Roosevelt who refused to play their part in the Presidential purge: Mayor Burnet R. Maybank of Charleston, leading candidate for Governor, and South Carolina's junior Senator James ("Jimmy") Byrnes. They are fond of "Cotton Ed." and they know he cannot live forever. If he dies with his Senatorial boots on. Mr. Maybank may slip into them and Jimmy Byrnes (who, coming from Spartanburg, would be embarrassed...
...snappy articles, the purposeful vacationist concluded that the North was as bad as the South. A dozen southern editors jumped at the chance to cast the stone back. This week, Reporter Ashmore's series begin appearing in papers like the Atlanta Constitution, Birmingham Age-Herald, Charleston News and Courier...
...subjects. Last summer he spent about 30 hours, smoked about 60 pipes, doing a brown and silver study of Dr. George Washington Carver, famed old Negro chemist at Tuskegee Institute. When the Southern States Art League, proud nurse of regional consciousness among artists from New Orleans to Charleston, held its 18th annual exhibition last month in Montgomery, Artist Bairnsfather sent in his portrait. What surprised him, as a Southerner, was that it got the Blanche S. Benjamin prize of $250 for "the loveliest painting of a Southern subject." Jury's reason: ''Spiritual rather than physical loveliness" inspired...
Embarrassed, Charleston Navy Yard's commandant glanced at the historic relic, shouted back: "Well, we have not any money for that sort of thing down here...