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...Senator is a mirror of his respective state. That includes the future Senator from Georgia, Herman Talmadge. Why is it that Georgians prefer that hick wonder of callousness, ignorance and narrow-mindedness to a true American gentleman...
...story by Sallie Bingham about a hick named Ephram is almost equally successful. Although Enharm seems terribly nearsighted, in fact as blind as Silas Marner, Miss Bingham puts his difficulty to some use: as he attains a feeling of freedom and independence, he becomes more and more aware of the things about him. While this illumination-through-blindness technique seems a trifle overdone, the story as a whole is vibrant and entertaining...
That simple question, to which almost any layman would answer yes, gets a fast and furious no from many of today's esthetes. Even to ask it in arty circles is to sound like a hick or a troublemaker. Selden Rodman, who is neither, uses it to kick off one of the most provocative art books in years (The Eye of Man; Devin-Adair; $10). His own answer-affirmative-rattles the lattices of a hundred ivory towers...
...Place in the Sun. In Red Bank. N.J., the Chamber of Commerce protested a telephone-company decision to name the town's dial exchange "Shadyside.'' argued that the proposed name would have a "hick-town connotation...
Trapped, Joe attacked, but he fought the men who once stood at his side. McCarthy mocked Iowa's Senator Hick-enlooper, ranted at Indiana's Capehart. He sneered at California's Senator Knowland, saying that it should not be the Republican Party's role "to appease, to whine, to whimper." Crimson-faced, Knowland rose on the floor and roared in protest against the charge...