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...Brady, author of Black Monday [Dec. 12], is for the birds, and is a pompous windbag to boot. It is not the N.A.A.C.P. which we true Southerners, both white and black, have to fear but men like Brady, whose statements make us sound like a bunch of "hold my magnolia, while I beat my slave" fools...
...View from Pompey's Head (20th Century-Fox), as Hamilton Basso saw it in his bestselling novel of 1954, was a rather unnerving spectacle in which the contemporary South looked like a magnolia tundra strewn with discarded Coke bottles. In the picture version, the view is strictly from the cash register, and the focus scrooches down pretty quickly on the kind of hot grits that generally go with the greens Hollywood loves best...
Incidentally, we're a little tired of being TIME-portrayed as magnolia-scented, bull-whip-swinging, red-faced illiterates. Most of that prototype were our overseers, who have with their descendants returned to the North whence they came and are now writing learnedly for the press...
...Horse Age. After the arrival of the English colonists, tidewater Virginia became the prime breeding ground for fine horses and fox-hunting cavaliers. Like most plantation owners, George Washing ton built a big stable (130 horses) and a reputation as a breeder, once raced his Arabian thoroughbred Magnolia against a roan colt owned by Thomas Jefferson at Alexandria's Jockey Club. (Magnolia lost.) From New England came the fast little Narragansett pacer (one was ridden by Paul Revere) and the Morgan horse whose progeny, crossbred with other strains, produced every type from draft horses to racing trotters...
Shuttle buses took aspiring beachcombers over to Singing Beach, where icy dips were available, and to the Manchester Yacht Club for boating. The younger crew romped at Magnolia Beach, while over 100 of the elder jostled together in '30's version of the square dance...