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...Rhett is as virile as virile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/21/1943 | See Source »

...existed in the Carolinas for 100 years, and in spite of all sorts of proofs that it cannot be true it continues on. It makes the Calhouns very angry and it also angers the Hanks family, many of whom still live here. Once years ago my father and Mr. Rhett Turnipseed asked Mr. John Edward Calhoun if it were true that Calhoun were Lincoln's father-John Edward Calhoun was sitting on the front piazza of the Calhoun mansion and he picked up a straight chair and said furiously to my father and Mr. Turnipseed, "Young gentlemen, you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...else (two full pages), closely followed by Henry James, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe. Nicholas Murray Butler, who usually gets more space in "Who's Who" than any other man, gets only 17 lines here. And the height of degradation for Mr. Butler is that he is followed by "Butler, Rhett, character in 'Gone With the Wind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 10/14/1941 | See Source »

...first time in 50 years a Charleston Aristocrat is bound for the U.S. Senate. In a special run-off primary last week, husky, sandy-haired Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank won the Democratic nomination which in South Carolina is equivalent to election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Up from the Quality | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...hero, Slave Trader Matthew Flood, is built like a souped-up Abraham Lincoln and is as tough, lascivious and predatory as Rhett Butler. Its heroine, Pallas Burmester, is an Abolitionist and a sort of vanguard feminist, but she is also a woman of spirit and of adequate sex appeal. The settings-Bristol, the African Gold Coast, Cuba, Spain, of the late 18th Century-exude that wasted "authenticity" of the Hollywood superproduction. Added attractions: informative data about the slave trade, some warm stuff about a Negro concubine, vignettes of convent and plantation life, a storm at sea, litigations over an estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Costume Novels | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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