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...Swamps & Pitfalls. Has Estes Kefauver really got a chance? The answer lies only at the end of a tortuous route, beset by every conceivable swamp, pitfall and booby trap known to politics. Kefauver's immediate strategy is to prove his popular strength. He will head, first, into the important primaries in Wisconsin and Nebraska, April 1. Wisconsin looks hopeful because the Truman forces are split there. Nebraska puts him squarely against Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr. as yet an untried, but supposedly potent, Midwest contender. If Kefauver vanquishes Kerr and picks up odds & ends of strength along...
Bishop to Power? Today, 80 priests are enrolled at Herrera's school, and many more, particularly of the post-revolution clergy, are gripped by his grand aim to swamp evil "with a flood of good." Few of them can match the bishop's activity. A year ago, he was in Mexico contacting Spanish refugees. Later, in Portugal, he conferred with the pretender to the Spanish throne. Don Juan, and the exiled onetime leader of Spain's Catholic party, Gil Robles. Last month he was off to Rome, where the Pope received him twice. This week...
...lucky hunch. Quivering Earth finally brought her the heady experience of first publication. What it brings to the reader is a story of the Florida Everglades that has more heart than art. So long as the heart beats firmly (about half the distance), this story of the big swamp has the endearing ingenuousness of a primitive painting, and some of the lushness...
...between the two, the child's awareness of the 'Glades' endless beauties and dangers as she grows up. Few writers have had much luck in trying to describe a lonely child of nature in a natural setting. Author Russ does better than most. But just as swamp drainage and encroaching civilization tarnish Jesse Geronimo Gundyhill's idyllic way of life, so do they cheapen the second half of Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds...
Atomic Motor Sales. Even before the Government had settled property claims battalions of snorting earthmovers plunged into the fields. They ripped through swamp gum thickets that had sheltered some of the finest turkey and partridge coverts in the East, churned the rich red clay into a lifeless desert. Huge huts sprang up, weird cylindrical towers rose against the horizon. The first horde of an eventual 47,000 workers poured in. Ellenton began to pull itself up by the roots. A town called New Ellenton was started from scratch twelve miles away. Most of Ellenton's Negroes moved there, loading...