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...least of his considerable share of the labors was to foster his cordial relations with European and Asiatic diplomats, all of whom held him in high esteem and gladly gave him their confidence when they feared his austerer chief. "All roads lead ultimately to Magnolia" (House's summer place), said Northcliffe...
...deer frisk white tails in place of the western black. For lodgepole pines and wind-torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that one would find in a trip from Georgia to the St. Lawrence-including flourishing chestnuts (now moribund from Pennsylvania north), holly, magnolia, the rare yellowwood, giant hemlocks, 30-ft. huckleberry bushes, acres of mountain laurel, rhododendrons with 18-inch trunks. Only lately have the Great Smokies been accurately mapped, and then a plane had to fly back and forth over them for days. There are no roads yet through the heart of the region...
...Kramer of McComb, Miss., last week announced that next month he would have a cheese factory operating at McComb, and quickly thereafter four more-at Magnolia, Liberty, Osyka and Tylertown, Miss. Five condenseries are also to be built in the state- at Starkville, Aberdeen, Tupelo, Kosciusko and Macon...
...story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely upon its romantic skeleton. Two cousins Hale, Canadians, are turned from Federal mercenaries into Confederate impostors, and from comrades into enemies, by the circumstances of being wounded and imprisoned...
...betting was even. Well did little Dundee show that he deserved this confidence when, after taking a count of eight in the fourth round, he came out of his corner like a loose propeller, pounded Roberts bloody until the last bell rang and a referee, picturesquely known as Mr. Magnolia, gave Dundee the decision...