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...pains by clannish, unreconstructed neighbors. The neighbor in this case is Stonewall Elliott (Fred MacMurray), who lost his ancestral home when the bank foreclosed and sold it to a young Manhattan sportsman, Norman Williams (Stirling Hayden). They become two corners of a four-cornered triangle. The other two are Stoney's wandering wife, a man-crazy flibbertigibbet (never seen in the flesh) who once had an affair with Norman, and Charlie Dunterry (Madeleine Carroll), a Southerner reared in the north who comes back to have a look at her family homestead...
Even more convincing was dapper little Senator James Francis Byrnes's victory in South Carolina over fiery Thomas Porcher Stoney, onetime Mayor of Charleston, and gaunt Colonel William C. Harllee, retired Marine (TIME, Aug. 24). Jimmy Byrnes squeaked into the Senate in 1930 with 120,000 primary votes to 116,000 for Coleman Livingston Blease. Last week, with 250,000 votes to 37,000 for his two anti-New Deal opponents combined, the President's Senate contact man piled up the biggest majority South Carolina had ever given a State-wide candidate...
Riots continued well on into the nineteenth century, usually mere potato or bread fights, but always waged with deep grudge and flaring hate of the authorities. History relates that Prescott, the great historian, was partially blinded by a flying piece of stoney-bread; a food which conveniently supplied both the issue of the war and the ammunition. But the meek reception by the students this year of the news that the University, attempting to run its dining halls on a no-profit basis, had inadvertently made a net haul of $40,000 proves that the old-days are indeed gone...
...last week. Through the rolling country around Holly Springs, Miss., the going was slow for bird dogs. The quail lay close and where they had fed out of cover the scent was washed away. Yet 27 coveys were found and Proctor, Wood-leigh's Roxie, Muscle Shoals Sam, Stoney Grove Bonny stood out well in the U. S. Field Trial Club's all-age stake-prelude to the national championships. this week on Hobart Ames's plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. Winner was Rex's Tarheelia, liver-&-white pointer bitch owned by T. Carey Bailey...
...Samuel Stoney, Manhattan architect, native of Charleston, S. C., gave an accurate imitation of Gullah (early Negro) dialect: "Once deh bin ah nyung rat wat couldn't muk up eh mine. Whenebber duh turrah rat ax um ef e would like tuh come oudt widdum, e would muk ansuh, 'I dunno...