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...MAGNOLIA STREET - Louis Golding -Farrar & Rinehart...
Great oaks from little acorns grow, but great novels seldom grow from small potatoes. Latest literatus to attempt this particular impossibility is Author Golding who plants his small potatoes in neat rows on either side Magnolia Street. One row is Christian, one Jewish. Though each keeps its sprouting and blossoming pretty much to itself, the vines get tangled every now & then...
...sailor boy who loves her on leave and off. Their affair scandalizes the Jewish section, who act as self-appointed sympathizers with Rose's invalid mother. Rose runs off to London, consummates her love for Cooper there. A telegram that her mother is dying brings her back to Magnolia Street in a hurry; but after her mother's death she marries Cooper, goes off to live with him elsewhere...
...decades (1910-30) spanned by the book, the least forgettable are: Mrs. Tregunter who lives on weak tea, lettuce leaves and hatred of the Jews; Rabbi Shulman who has the Talmud on the brain; Benny Edelman whose rescue of Tommie Wright from drowning induces Philanthropist Emmanuel to give a Magnolia Street party, which brings the Jews and gentiles together temporarily. But Mrs. Wright sees Benny naked after the rescue; their subsequent marriage cuts Benny off from his Jewish family for good...
...left the President alone in the White House and went South. Traveling by train to Charleston, S. C. with a few friends, she there inspected the famed Trumbull portrait of Washington in the City Hall. Then she motored out over dirt roads bordered with Spanish moss to see the Magnolia and Middleton Place Gardens, lush and lovely in early Southern spring. Back in Charleston the First Lady boarded the Department of Commerce's inspection boat Sequoia to cruise Florida waters. Mrs. Hoover's journey was saddened when she learned that Mrs. Howard E. Coffin, her good friend whom...