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...chief interest of the April number of the Advocate is in the generous selection it prints from the Harvard entries in the annual Story Magazine contest. Of these I liked Mr. Wenzel's "Journey to Shreveport" best. It is a more brutal and masculine rendering of the situation in Josephine Johnson's "Nigger Honeymoon," with the shock of full awareness reserved until the end. Although Mr. Wenzel makes good use of the excitement of his material, his story derives its value from his ability to observe, and from a sense of country passed through and the things people...
...owns 573 miles of trackage, 371 of which lie between New Orleans and Hope, Ark., with an affiliate branch running to Dallas, Texas. Most of its freight-quarry products, refined oil and sugar-originates in its own territory. The two roads, pee-wee but prosperous, meet at Shreveport, La. K.C.S. sets its total assets at $138,738,553; L.& A., at $35,514,566. In 1937 K.C.S...
...Shreveport, La., he praised the "vision and courage" of Franklin Roosevelt, called for a united nation to fight Depression...
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...youngest person ever to appear on a convention program of the American Chemical Society. He is also the brashest. A precocious, articulate young man with an active mind and critical spirit, son of a retired Louisiana merchant, Edgar will graduate this June, loaded with honors, from Centenary College (Shreveport, La.), expects to start graduate study next fall at Stanford. In his 17 years Edgar Friedenberg has been much annoyed by scientific jargon. Last week he addressed the conference on chemical education during the society's spring meeting at Dallas. Far from displaying stage fright or obsequiousness, Critic Friedenberg took...