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...history of Johns Hopkins is a history, of great men. Its first was that Godfearing, champagne-loving moneygrubber, Johns Hopkins. His namesake University would give much this week to find another like him. Son of a Maryland tobacco planter whose Quaker precepts made him free his slaves and put his sons to work, Johns Hopkins got no schooling after he was 12. He started his fortune by exchanging groceries and farm products for raw Maryland whiskey, selling the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." He increased it by shrewd business ventures and hard-fisted money-lending. Because his only love...
Last week John & Mack Rust appealed for Federal and state aid in working out a program for painlessly absorbing the picker into the South's economy. An idea of their own is not to sell the harvesters but to lease them to planters who promise to maintain minimum wage and maximum work-hour scales, abolish child labor and accept collective bargaining. If the promises are not kept the Rusts would snatch back the planter's picker...
With broad-shouldered Planter Ames, a patriarchal figure in mustard corduroy, at the head of the procession, the championship week began with a fast heat by Yankee Doodle Jack, and a hot favorite, the orange-spotted pointer, Doctor Blue Willing. The latter stayed in hand better than on two other championship occasions and, as a local sports writer put it, "he handled his birds like a Ziegfeld beauty handles a millionaire." Tips Manitoba Jake, the big, white-&-black pointer owned by Golfer Glenna Collett Vare (see p. 27), ran the next heat worthy of notice. He, too, had the morning...
...Callow Martin, one of those slightly ratty British youths with a wild craving for motor cars, just misses a homosexual imbroglio by falling for the girl next door and her roadster. Even Mrs. Hilton (Gladys Cooper), sensible matron that she is, entertains a fleeting fancy for a returned rubber planter. And, most unexpectedly of all, Roger Hilton (Philip Merivale), a financier impeccable of manner and noble of mien, has a weak moment with a flashy actress. By midnight, however, the devil has been safely sent packing...
Colonel Thomas Norwood (Stuart Beebe) is a white planter who occasionally passes a night with his black housekeeper, Cora Lewis (Rose McClenndon). Playwright Hughes lays claim to serious consideration by his perceptive presentation of Norwood and the Negroes on his place. No Simon Legree, the wealthy widower seems to treat his dusky employes fairly, is downright generous with Cora and her family. In turn, the Negroes give Norwood that queerly affectionate and somewhat frightened obedience expected and received by Southern whites. Without nosing it as a universal occurrence, Playwright Hughes reveals one dramatic consequence of this interracial situation...