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...Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh...
...divorced Yankee wife (TIME, March 30). If Houstonians had a drop of mob justice left in their veins, wrote Little, they would organize "a posse of Cadillac owners" to invade damyankee-land and free Conley. Exclaimed Little: "It is Texans like Conley who add scent to the magnolia, color to the red hibiscus, juice to the grapefruit and stature to the San Jacinto monument...
SALES of non-corrosive plastic pipe have boomed so fast (3,000% since 1948) that Republic Steel last week bought pipemaker Owings-Sharpe, Inc. of Magnolia, Ark. Already widely used by mining, chemical and oil companies to carry corrosive fluids, plastic pipe is generally easier to install and cheaper to maintain than corresponding metal pipe. Sales, which reached $15 million last year, are expected to hit $250 million...
...full day of sunshine since Feb. 18, but as the Columbine squared away for her landing, the sun burst through the clouds. There were still puddles of water on the airport ramp and on the highway as the Eisenhower car sped out to the Golf Club, zipped up the magnolia-lined driveway and came to a stop in front of the little (two-bedroom) white clapboard, green-shuttered "Bobby Jones" cottage...
When a Southern novel rolls off the presses, it is an odds-on bet that it will land either in the dark bog of Gothic violence or in the moonlit magnolia patch. Ovid Williams Pierce's The Plantation does neither; it is a first novel of grace, style and quiet excellence...