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Freddie Thomason was born without arms or legs. The blue-eyed, towheaded son of the Herschel Thomasons of Magnolia, Ark., Freddie has smooth, sloping shoulders with no. sign that arms had ever begun to form. Unlike most "congenital amputees," he was born with virtually no stumps where legs should have been...
...seemed, Freddie's case was studied carefully at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange. Dr. Kessler showed Mrs. Thomason how to exercise Freddie to develop his trunk muscles, rolling him from side to side and making him twist as much as possible. Back home in Magnolia, where her husband is a radio repairman, Mrs. Thomason exercised Freddie for 45 minutes, twice a day, for almost a year...
Curley had met Roosevelt at a luncheon at the home of Colonel Edward M. House ("the president-maker") in Magnolia, Mass. After the luncheon, when the group faced the press, Curley told the newsmen point-blank that it was going to nominate Roosevelt for President, But, so strong was Massachusetts feeling for Smith, that Curley was not even elected to the delegation to the convention. Instead, he went to Chicago alone and there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard...
Landlubber. In the moldering, sway-backed Goldenrod, twice sunk and salvaged in her 40 years, it takes an eye as knowing as Cap'n Bryant's to find wistful hints of glories past,* when she was the biggest, flossiest playhouse afloat. Those were the magnolia-scented days when the showboats moved as regularly as the spring floods and, according to legend, a Bayou mother could say of her child, "He'll be foah, come next floatin' showhouse." Today, twelve years after the Goldenrod became a virtual landlubber at her St. Louis mooring, Cap'n Menke...
...Magnolia Alley (by George Batson; produced by Lester Cutler) was already, at week's end, part of Memory Lane. It set out to picture the life of a shabby-ungenteel rooming house in a Southern town. The characters included a landlady with a past and a thirst (Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson...