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Despite this record, he was admitted to Ft. Benning, Ga. Officers' Candidate School. Somehow he got through Benning's tough, work-crammed infantry course. Three months later the unstable Swancutt got his commission...
Like a score of similar Southern novels, the book is a story of racial conflict in a small Southern town (called Maxwell, Ga.), in which the dramatic action is the love affair of a white man and a Negro girl, the climax is his murder by her brother, and the end is a lynching. The same story has been told & retold, expertly or awkwardly, with Freudian variations (as in the novels of T. S. Stribling), with Marxian overtones (as in proletarian novels). The main theme has been repeated in fiction almost as frequently as the lynchings that inspired it have...
...ever since he retreated to his swamp home 13 months ago, the owl-eyed, trap-mouthed head of tobacco-juicy Gene Talmadge briefly raised itself to the light last week. The pseudo-folksy ex-Governor of Georgia made the papers by rising before the Lions Club of little Eastman, Ga. (pop. 3,311) and plugging the election of General Douglas MacArthur to the Presidency-as a Democrat. Then the No. 1 Has-Been of Georgia politics subsided again with a faint snapping of galluses, having once more done nobody a great deal of good...
Sight Unseen. In Fort Benning, Ga., Sergeant William Eller made a parachute landing in a clump of trees, discovered that the grove was camouflage for a concrete runway. He survived...
Fort Benning, Ga...