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Wisteria & Decay. On the drama front, TV last week went regional with a vengeance. Two shows dealt with the decay-and-magnolia theme of the Deep South...
...Magnolia's diving geologists hope to find clues that lead to stratagraphic traps. One possibility: using sea organisms as pointers. The clams, snails and other creatures that now live on the bottom...
...fashionable sport of skin diving has been taken up, rubber flippers, aqualungs and all, by serious geologists. Last week Magnolia Petroleum Co. told how its geological skin divers swim along the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico looking for information that will help find pools...
Under the supervision of Ivan Alexander, Magnolia's exploration chief, four full-fledged geologists and two technicians practiced skin diving until they could pass the Navy's test for frogmen. Then, led by Dr. Daniel Feray, they embarked on the Gulf in a converted shrimp boat, went overboard and flapped along the bottom. Working in water up to 65 ft. deep off eastern Texas, they picked up samples of sediments, gathered sea creatures, e.g., sand dollars and mud-living worms, and studied the growth of marine vegetation. They pursued and captured in glass jars the bubbles of natural...
Senator Maybank's death threw South Carolina Democrats into turmoil. Governor James Byrnes wanted a special primary called. But old (66) State Senator Edgar A. Brown, the most powerful man in party circles-and a pine hill man-had other ideas. On the way to Magnolia Cemetery Brown's Cadillac turned out of the funeral cortege, and he hurried to Columbia, where, at an emergency meeting that day, the state Democratic executive committee, on Brown's insistence, decided against the primary plan. Then it handed the party's nomination to Brown...