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...youth were kept apart at the beaches, as the parents went to Singing Beach while the "Intermediates and Juniors" invaded Magnolia Beach. Such a highly suspect move as that of breaking up the family could not last long, and the wound was repaired by noon, when a family luncheon was served in the huge big-top tents behind the clubhouse. Save for a few ants the chicken salad was fine, and for those who could master the wily lobster the meal was doubly successful...
...major breakthrough toward equality of opportunity, Texas oil workers this year have succeeded in abolishing a discriminatory "dual promotion" system, under which Negroes were hired only as laborers and could not compete with white workers for operating jobs. At Beaumont's Magnolia Petroleum Co., the first company to scrap the old system, 32 Negroes have already stepped into operating jobs, while 13 whites have been hired as laborers...
...they report it, but in the past tense as if it had already blown over, even if it should still be raging. Concludes Hall: "The race issue is not a Southern dilemma but a national problem. Discrimination is discrimination everywhere, not just when it happens under a Southern magnolia...
...good runs into hard going south of the Mason-Dixon line. Perhaps because they are the only Americans who ever lost a war, Southerners are more likely than others to take a tragic view of life, and man's depravity is the favorite preoccupation of Southern literature-whether magnolia-scented or corn-likker-tainted. Borden Deal, 33, a Mississippi-born short story writer, belongs to the white-mule team. Readers who can digest a sort of homily-grits style and who have a strong head for Southern discomfort will find that in his first novel the corn...
...Else Is It Done?" Until last year few people outside Mississippi were really conscious of Jim Eastland's existence. In the Magnolia State itself, however, Eastland was born a power to be reckoned with. His maternal grandfather, Dr. Richmond Austin, came from one of the state's most blue-blooded families, and rode as a cavalry officer under General Nathan Bedford Forrest (later one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan). His paternal grandfather not only made a pile out of a drugstore chain, but also had the foresight to buy, at $1 an acre, 600 acres...