Word: magnolia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wake Forest hired a Manhattan architect to plan a new campus down to the last magnolia tree, sold its old one to the Southern Baptist Convention. The architect drew plans for a new chapel, university center, library, science building, gymnasium, four dormitories for men and two for women. The college will add other buildings later...
...Jima and the Bulge were won on thousands of football fields in the U.S., where hundreds of thousands of stout-hearted young men have played their hearts out for the kind of honor that is not vitiated by the artificial codes of caste-conscious military gentlemen. RUDOLPH FIEHLER Magnolia...
From its early shots of happy darkies singing in the shining cotton fields, through the melodramatic confrontations, the heartbroken farewells, the whirlwind romance between Magnolia and Gaylord Ravenal, and the sharp descent from riches to poverty, down to the final succession of coincidental reunions, the story is smothered in old-fashioned treacle and tears...
...movie is hardly more fortunate in its casting. Kathryn Grayson and Howard (Annie Get Your Gun) Keel, playing Magnolia and Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill...
...seashore at 9:15 a. m. During the course of the day, '26 will have a chance to tour Salem, play soft ball, tour Manchester Harbor, play golf, tennis, and refresh with lunch and cocktails at the Essex Country Club. Meanwhile, the especially youthful will have a picnic at Magnolia Beach...