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...world's brightest diplomatic stars, Turkey's Foreign Minister Numan Rifat Menemencioglu (pronounced approximately many-men'-chaw-glue), went into eclipse last week. The latest play in Turkey's shrewd neutrality game, which he had managed skillfully since 1942, forced him to retire...
...literature begins on courthouse steps, in general stores where men chaw, whittle and tell tales. With a fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil-(University of North Carolina Press; $2). Their themes are lady-killing fiddlers, horse races, knife duels, preachers, hunting dogs, log-cabin adultery, possums, milk snakes, the witch of Red River who chased brave Andy Jackson back to Nashville...
...crowds stormed the box office, rushed the theatre, packed its seats, clogged its aisles. While the audience waited, happy as clams at high tide, for the curtain to rise, Potter got more and more Jeetery backstage, needed the whole company to drape his rags about him, suffered trying to chaw plug-tobacco behind stage whiskers...
...Snead's colleagues feared that he might be doubly dangerous on his home course, they were exactly right. Except for a momentary lapse when he bungled a piddling putt, he gave his hillbilly neighbors something to chaw over. He took a two-under-par 68 on each of the first two rounds, a 69 on the third and then, after trailing Ky Laffoon by one stroke at the 63rd hole, the pride of White Sulphur Dreezed through the final nine in a whirlwind 32 for a seven-under-par total of 273 -and first prize...
...John Mills choked his mother to death in a religious ceremony, went to jail. During the Grand Jury examination local politicians made electioneering speeches, witnesses left hearings to attend a medicine show, swap animals at a mule trading bee. During the trial witnesses absented themselves, mooned about town to "chaw the rag with, the folks," jurors chatted with friends, waved greetings. Presiding Judge J. F. Bailey spent an hour charging the jury, mentioned the case at hand in but one sentence, reprimanded one juror for hobnobbing. After deliberation the jury last week returned a verdict of guilty, sent John Mills...