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...grand ballroom of St. Paul's Hotel St. Paul one night last week, a pert little waitress named Katherine Butterfield sat opposite an auditor named Herbert Meddinnus. Miss Butterfield was the pone. In the second hand, she held 16. She was 20 holes ahead at the first half. In the seventh hand, she held 16 again. On the last round she was 20 holes ahead. She went out needing 10 and holding 12. Mr. Meddinnus barely got around the horn to escape a skunking by two holes...
Louise, Louise (Bob Crosby; Decca). Blues in cold sorgum tempo, with a fine corn pone vocal by Southerner Eddie Miller...
...Carolina Press Association gave Governor Gardner a "live-at-home" dinner at the State College at Raleigh. Except for salt, pepper, sugar and coffee the menu was entirely North Carolinian: shrimps from Southport, clams from Wilmington, turkeys from Durham, sausages from Kinston, mushrooms from Charlotte, onions from Wilson, corn (pone) meal from Maxton, milk from Pinehurst, walnuts from Madison County, pecans from Lumberton. Lucky Strikes from Reidsville, Chesterfields from Durham. Among the favors were knitted underwear from Winston-Salem, homespun suits from Biltmore, hosiery from Morganton, coughdrops (Vick's) from Greensboro, thread from Gastonia...
...much more innocent of knowledge than the Northerner of corresponding position," but believes in his "unspoiled and eager teachableness." An eloquent testimonial of the kind of education which Piedmont gives is provided in Professor Phillips' account of weekends in his mountain cabin where students help him bake corn pone and listen to passages from Walt Whitman...
...speakers will be Dean Roscoe Pone of the Law School; Professor A. W. Scott, a nationally known authority on the Law of Trusts: E. N. Grisweld, 31, president of the Law Review and S. L. Rosenberry, 31, president of the Legal Aid Bureau and Secretary of the Law School Society...