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June Havoc, blonde, scene-stealing Broadway musicomedienne, invited to a destroyer launching by Navy Lieut. George Gay Jr.-only survivor of Midway-famed Torpedo Squadron 8-gaily stole the Navy's show. The ship had hardly been christened H. J. Ellison (in honor of the Squadron 8 hero) when June turned to her host and cried: "George, I love you so much!" George blushingly admitted to reporters that June was his "girl...
...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...
...Elton Ellison, 20, of Rails, Tex. has made the furrows of a farm look like a highway to business success. The Future Farmers of America, meeting in their Kansas City convention this week, gave young Ellison the title of "Star Farmer of America" and $500 prize money. For Farmer Ellison, recently inducted into the Army, this prize money was just another cash token of an operating success that started when he was 13. By then he had saved up enough money to buy a pig. A little later he borrowed money to finance an eight-acre cotton patch; paid...
...year after he graduated (1941) from Cooper High School, he added a tractor, next a truck and some cows. Soon he was able to advance $2,000 to his father to help him buy a 260-acre place, while he rented 270 acres for himself. In 1943 young Ellison was not so much a Future Farmer as a future country gentleman. In that year, he had 220 acres of cotton, 265 of milo, 27 of Sudan grass, ten of hegari (grain sorghums), 64 hogs, four dairy cattle, two beef cattle, 350 hens. Total net income for the year...
...Ellison DuRant Smith (his opponents pronounce his middle name in two words) is no Southern aristocrat. He was born during the Civil War, near Lynchburg, S.C., and raised in the Reconstruction, when carpetbaggers, scalawags and Negroes bankrupted the State Legislature. He never tried to overcome his horror at the thought of a Negro voting. He had two ideas: 1) keep Negroes down, 2) the price of cotton up. On this platform Cotton Ed was kept in office as a U.S. Senator for six terms, long enough to become the dean of the Senate. This week he also became...