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Died. Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 80, walrus-mustached, unreconstructed Democratic Senator from South Carolina for 35 years (longest consecutive Senatorial term in U.S. history); of coronary thrombosis; in Lynchburg, S.C. Perched on cotton bales in a mule-drawn wagon, Cotton Ed galumphed through South Carolina, roaring his belief that in his God-blessed state a family could have security on 50? a day. A pain in the New Deal's side, he championed "white supremacy," the poll tax, states' rights. Last July, roundly trounced in the Democratic primaries by Governor Olin Johnston, he returned to his dirt...
CAESAR AND CHRIST-Will Durant-Simon & Schuster...
...spite of his seven-league-boot habits of scholarship and composition, Will Durant is a master of synthesis arid luminous narrative. Caesar and Christ, third volume of the monumental Story of Civilization which he expects to finish by 1955 (already published: Our Oriental Heritage; The Life of Greece), may lack moral passion. But as clear exposition of an immensely complicated story, it is magnificent...
...post-war rebuilding plans are evidenced by the barricades and hammering on the Johnston Gate, judging from the statement of Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, but "just a repair...
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