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Absentee. In Gadsden, Ala., city fathers decided not to issue a liquor license for the Royal Palm Cafe, a Negro eating place, whose owner gave his address as Federal Penitentiary, Atlanta, Ga...
...afternoon last week in the House, forthright Representative Stephen Pace of Americus, Ga. decided he had had a bellyful of talk. Up stood Democrat Pace and let fly: "The bill is now in shape to pass in 30 minutes. My hope is that, now that all the rights and powers of Congress are in the hands of a simple majority of Congress, this eternal controversy will...
...when the shrill horn of plenty was heard in the rest of the land, did little to cheer the literary consciousness of the South. In those years Carson Mc-Cullers grew up in Columbus, Ga. with a hopeless passion for good music, fine writing, kindly human relationships. Her family was not well off, her opportunities were limited, her observations bitter. At 20 she married a fellow Southerner and started work on her first novel, a long, cloudy story of a deaf-mute. Appearing last year under the publishers' makeshift title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter...
Last week in a hotel at Augusta, Ga., the two top men in the U. S. cotton business spoke their thoughts on cotton's future. They were the tall, urbane Texan Will Clayton, whose Anderson, Clayton & Co. is the world's No. 1 cotton broker; and short, portly Oscar Johnston, No. 1 grower, whose plantation operations in Mississippi-50,000 acres worked by 3,000 farm hands-produce 16,000 bales of cotton a year. Will Clayton is a polished internationalist, a business diplomat who is now a Deputy Loan Administrator for Jesse Jones. Oscar Johnston is rooted...
...rural St. John's Church at West Point, Va., where in a year he paid off a heavy debt, boosted the communicant list from 13 to 100. In 24 months he had calls from 28 parishes, finally accepted a call from the Church of the Good Shepherd, Augusta, Ga. There he stayed just long enough to meet and marry Sarah Hardwick. (Said he on his 40th wedding anniversary: "I believe the Lord sent me there so I could find my wife.") Then he served successively at two wealthy, influential parishes: Grace Church, Chicago; St. Thomas', New York...