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Next day he heard about the wreck of an airplane off Havana in which one Edwin F. Atkins Jr., a U. S. planter in Cuba, had been lost. Friends of the planter identified the shark's meal. For years thereafter whenever a person asked him the old question, "Will sharks eat human beings?" Sharkman Young produced a photograph of his partner standing in front of the disemboweled shark, holding the Atkins human arm. Last fortnight that sickening picture, with many another, was reproduced in Sharkman Young's garrulous, rambling fisherman's book Shark! Shark!, set down...
...these stories while Ah King was his servant. Some of them: A married woman and her lover, about to become illegitimate parents, kill the husband, marry and live happily ever after, with no pangs of remorse. A model of devotion to the rest of the community are a planter and his half-sister who keeps house for him. When the planter marries, his sister kills herself; the community discovers they were living in incest. The worst white man on a little island attracts the attention of a withered spinster-missionary; to the amused amazement of everyone except the predatory virgin...
...Penthouse there are the Juniors. Three rounds of Planter's punch loosen guarded tongues. "My tutor says I've still a chance. . ." "Just slap the Bible and Shakespeare exams. . ." Two more years is a long time. Half over, and Harvard's better than...
...illegitimate child of free mulattoes, Marie Leveau saw New Orleans pass from France to the U. S., mingle young U. S. lustiness with exiled French manners and imported Negro superstition. Like other female octoroons, she was trained by her mother for the career of mistress to a rich young planter who would select her at the annual Quadroon Ball held in the Theatre d'Orleans (now a Negro convent) back of the St. Louis Cathedral. The young men fought duels for fresh or famed octoroon mistresses in the garden behind the Cathedral, handy to a priest for shriving...
...President Roosevelt picked up from his desk a Government check for $517 and handed it to stocky, red-faced William E. Morris, first Texas cotton planter to agree to plow up part of his crop. The check was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's payment for 47 acres of cotton destroyed. Spotting a cotton stalk in Farmer Morris' left hand, the President declared: "That cotton looks better than that which we raise down in Georgia." ¶President Roosevelt approved a special N R A 3? postage stamp to be issued Aug. 15. Design: a farmer, a business...