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...HAZEL G. BOOTH Indianapolis...
...unpopular in Holmes County, Miss. is to criticize the sheriff for mistreating a Negro. When good-looking, dark-haired Mrs. Hazel Brannon Smith, 41, tried this in the two weeklies she owns and edits, she found herself on the losing end of a libel suit filed by the sheriff. But last week, thanks to a Mississippi Supreme Court decision, Editor Smith's courageous editorial voice had the last-and winning-word...
...voice that, in front-page editorials or in her weekly column, "Through Hazel Eyes," had long sounded like the county's conscience. Just out of the University of Alabama, Hazel Brannon arrived in Holmes County in 1936, borrowed $3,000, bought the weekly Durant News (circ. 1,475). She was doing well enough by 1943 to take over the county's only other paper, the Advertiser (circ. 2,800), in the county seat of Lexington (pop. 3,198), put them both to campaigning against gambling and bootlegging in the dry county...
...July 1941, a veteran of hundreds of air battles and two bailouts (one of which cost him the great toe on his left foot), Peter Townsend was married to the vivacious, hazel-eyed daughter of Brigadier Timothy Pawle, the "squire" of Didford village. The elaborate white wedding was held in a 13th century church in Much Hadham, and a guard of honor formed by the men of his squadron was on hand to line the way as Townsend came out with his bride. "I hope this doesn't mean," smiled the bridegroom, eying the turnout, "that the planes...
Only slightly less decorous characters are the boys of the Palace Flop-house, the Doc's friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...