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...others standing on the football field in the chill evening, at the mass funeral service, were not so sure about Texas City's tomorrows. The false sunset from the waterfront still rouged their set faces. And in the ruined center of town, the big clock on the Magnolia garage was still stopped dead...
Does the North pick unmercifully on the South? Can the South solve its racial and economic problems by itself? Both these questions got a partially affirmative answer last week from Hodding Carter, youthful publisher of the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat-Times. No bourbon-&-magnolia reactionary, Carter won a Pulitzer Prize this year for his forthright editorial stand against racial intolerance (TIME, May 20). In a Saturday Evening Post article, Southerner Carter admitted that the South has a chip on its shoulder, then let go some resentment toward carping Northern critics. Wrote...
...last week's "circus" was different. The visitors came early, as usual, driving new or good used cars to the magnolia-shaded lot near the depot. Before long, there were some 500 cars around...
...North Carolina Baptists must raise $4 million to pay for the new buildings in Winston-Salem. Last week Wake Forest's Board of Trustees and the Baptist General Board voted that it could be done-and talked enthusiastically of a campus twelve times as big as its present magnolia-shaded 24-acre one. Wake Forest could then have 3,000 students instead...
...Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House, the big round pansy bed was in vivid bloom, and the oriental magnolia trees were suddenly heavy with purple-edged white blossoms. The wide, deep lawn was a bright green. To the passer-by the Executive Mansion seemed whiter, dressier, gayer than at any time since five springs...