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CHARLES R. POSEY, JR. Baltimore...
...most devious. The story, laid in Virginia and Maryland during the first days of the Civil War, is recalled 50 years later by an old bachelor doctor named Lacy Buchan. The protagonist, however, is the narrator's brother-in-law, a handsome, money-making Marylander named George Posey, whom the narrator worshiped but only vaguely understood. The elder Buchans, Jeffersonian aristocrats, understand Posey even less. He flouts their social codes, which he dismisses as the unpractical rigmarole of idealists who "think of nothing but marriage and death and the honor of Virginia...
When Major Buchan orders a family of slaves freed, Posey calls it sentimentality, sells them down the river and applies the money on Buchan debts. But when his own house servant (who is also his half brother) is shot for imputed rape. Posey shoots the white man, who is the narrator's oldest brother. As another result of Posey's following his own rather than the Buchan social codes, his wife is driven crazy. Yet the narrator withholds moral judgment; the tragedy, he concludes, is one in which Fate pulls the strings...
...Utopia failed, the Utopians, dogged, idealistic, excitable, looked round for new capital, moved to the next county, started another Utopia. Most Utopians came from the cities and were bad farmers. Most of them acquired too much land, which was foreclosed at the first slim crop. New Harmony, in Posey County, Ind., had seven successive constitutions, failed both under a dictatorship and when it split into ten separate communities. Some communities died out because they did not believe in having children. Others that believed in Free Love were smashed by vigilantes. Some broke up in quarrels about property, religion, women. Brook...
Twice married Mr. Dykstra has a daughter Elizabeth, 24, a stepson Franz, 16, who is a junior at the University School of Cincinnati, a 2-year-old grandson named Stephen Dykstra Posey. Last week Cedric Parker of Madison's Capital Times, a Progressive organ which remorselessly hounded glib, dressy Republican Frank, interviewed Mr. Dykstra and found that "he does not wear spats, carries no cane, and doesn't care if his trousers are in press...