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When Grand left Appomattox in '65 he thought that the North had won the war. And, indeed, the South was down in supposed defeat. But with true fighting spirit the sons of the Magnolia blossom rose to win the greatest fight of all: the Battle of Hollywood...
There were a few U.S. novelists in the middle ranks who gave promise of reaching the top some day. From the South came two novels shucked clean of old magnolia and Faulkneresque gothic: Thomas Hal Phillips' neatly written, believable son & father story, Search for a Hero; and Worth Tuttle Hedden's Love Is a Wound, a thoroughly honest and quietly dramatic tale of slavish and unrequited love in North Carolina. By & large, U.S. writers seemed to serve up fewer wormwood cocktails, fewer canapes of neurosis and despair, than in previous years. A selfconsciously written, cliché-laden...
...daughters spent yesterday holding a song feet at jam session and attending the pops will their parents, will also join the parade to the Essex club and singing Beach today. The Younger family members will were entertained yesterday by a sport program and a magic show, will go magnolia Beach with counsellors today...
Elementary Answer. By last week, Cairo's dream of the segregated life had been rudely shattered. For the first time in years, fiery crosses burned, and the magnolia-lined streets echoed with shots and explosions. The reason: two field workers from the midwest regional office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had moved into town to end segregation in the schools once & for all. They had persuaded dozens of Negro parents to apply to have their children transferred to schools used by the whites...
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...