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Your piece on U. S. illustrators [TIME, May 1] lacked the names of worthies that should have been honorably mentioned. Henry Raleigh and Walter Biggs of my generation have held the admiration and have been an inspiration to contemporaries and students. Other outstanders are James Preston, May Wilson Preston, H. J. Mowat, and that competent Oilman Pruett Carter...
...Sarah Easton, a rawboned, middle-aged woman with an eroded face, was "raised hard." She lives with her moon-faced husband and their 16-year-old twin daughters in a neat, sagging one-room shack near Raleigh, N. C. They live on $4 or $5 a week, remember good times when they had $12. They own a 1924 Dodge but can't afford to run it. Years ago, discouraged by debts and annual babies, John started drinking "like a hog in a bucket of slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage...
...South, from New Orleans to Miami and from Raleigh to Memphis, appeared solidly disgusted with Hitler & Mussolini. But they were Britain's and France's headaches, not the South's. Also evident was annoyance at Jews for having helped precipitate so much fuss & bother...
Married. Thomas Dixon Jr., 75, onetime Baptist preacher who made a fortune from his book, The Clansman (filmed as The Birth of a Nation); and May Donovan, 44, his literary assistant for 18 years; he for the second time, she for the first; in Raleigh...
Chivalry doesn't pay was the lesson learned by a would be Sir Walter Raleigh from Dunster House yesterday afternoon...