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...Harlem and on Broadway, but that some of it comes from towns of the South and Middle West. From them the concert's manager, Swing Pundit John Hammond, had imported eleven hand-picked Negro musicians. Of these the most musically interesting were four lean, earnest-looking Negroes from Kinston, N. C., who call themselves Mitchell's Christian Singers...
...live-at-home" movement. Last week the North Carolina Press Association gave Governor Gardner a "live-at-home" dinner at the State College at Raleigh. Except for salt, pepper, sugar and coffee the menu was entirely North Carolinian: shrimps from Southport, clams from Wilmington, turkeys from Durham, sausages from Kinston, mushrooms from Charlotte, onions from Wilson, corn (pone) meal from Maxton, milk from Pinehurst, walnuts from Madison County, pecans from Lumberton. Lucky Strikes from Reidsville, Chesterfields from Durham. Among the favors were knitted underwear from Winston-Salem, homespun suits from Biltmore, hosiery from Morganton, coughdrops (Vick's) from Greensboro...
...fame of Goldsboro's Hoovercart Rodeo spread. Rodeos and parades were held in Oxford (469 entries), in Roxboro, Kinston and Wendell. More & more Hoovercarts appeared on North Carolina roads, spread northward into Virginia. Last week the first one appeared on the streets of Danville (pop. 22,247). Virgilina, Va. organized a Hoovercart parade...
...Kinston, N. C., William Alston's goat in seven days ate the following: an automobile seat, a hollyhock row. a pair of pyjamas, two days' mail, 17 hens' nests, a prayer book, three rows of assorted flowers. On the eighth day William Alston slew his goat, gave it to a Negro family. The family ate the goat...
...from Berlin and "streamlined" by a bath in wart-remover, the frog Wilhelm was a betting favorite. But while the crowd shrieked, jostled, fired revolvers, he covered only 4 ft. 8 in. in his three jumps. A pampered creature called Zenobia, imported from Kinston, N. C. in a tub of native water, raised cheers by doing 8 ft. 6 in. Then Angels Camp went wild as the bright green veteran Budweiser thrust thrice with his long green legs, shot down the course 11 ft. 5 in., was declared winner...