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...major industries shown on this eleven-state map, the South is dotted with important food processing plants; seafood canning is big business in New Orleans, Mobile and Brunswick, Ga., as is meat and fruit packing in Jacksonville, poultry freezing in Gainesville, Ga., sugar refining in New Orleans, Louisville and Savannah...
Last week Air Force Staff Sergeant Roy C. Burnham walked into the Savannah Morning News, sister paper of the Savannah Evening Press which had run the picture that day. He branded it a fake. With him, Burnham had an identical picture in color, which he had obtained from an Air Force photo laboratory technician in England in 1944. The technician, whose name Burnham did not remember, had told Burnham he had taken a picture of a B-17 bombing mission over Europe and painted in the picture of Christ. He planned to sell pictures to airmen as souvenirs. Said Burnham...
...puzzling for centuries to reconcile his landmarks with the topography of that small Ionian island. Berry Fleming's Fredericksville, Ga. scene of The Fortune Tellers presents no such problems of identification: the place is plainly Augusta, with its Broad Street, its Confederate Monument and its levee against the Savannah River. But this will be no news to Augustans; many of them have grown casehardened to their fellow citizen's revelations in thin fictional disguise (Colonel Effingham's Raid, The Lightwood. Tree) of their community's seamy side and shoddy behavior...
Violent River. There is nothing seamy or shoddy, though, about Fleming's account of Fredericksville's struggle against the Savannah River in full flood. Under the grey smear of incessant rain, its people scrabble heroically for survival behind their leaky dike. The warm yellow water climbs a foot an hour up the face of the levee. Sweating, grunting workers raise extra barriers of sandbags just ahead of the rising river. Sand-boils, bubbles, slides and settles, one after another, threaten to wipe out all efforts in one great gush of doom. The glare of fusees mixes menacingly with...
Bide a Wee. In Savannah, after a funeral-home attendant fled in terror from a snoring corpse, police discovered William Fleming asleep with three bottles of beer beside him, got his story: "I was just trying to find a peaceful place...