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...Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Since World War II the Senator has had a lot of criticism and competition. In 1946, a Richmond lawyer named Martin A. Hutchinson ran up a startling 82,000 votes (against Byrd's 142,000) in the senatorial primary; in 1949, wellborn; Colonel Francis Pickens Miller, a 57-year-old state legislator and ex-SHAEF staff officer, gave the Byrd forces a rousing fight in the race for governor...
...Braz plays back the record of his life, it becomes a melody of might-have-beens. Wellborn and well-to-do, he is fleeced at 17 by a well-built gold digger: "Marcella loved me for 15 months and eleven contos ($5,500); nothing less." Nonetheless, he graduates from college "with complete faith in dark eyes and written constitutions." He becomes engaged to Virgilia, a girl with a "mouth fresh as dawn and insatiable as death," but she jilts him for a politician. He survives the experience, and uses it to sharpen the Braz Cubas philosophy of life, also known...
Cinemactress Joan Crawford burbled happily to Chicago reporters about her first independently produced picture, Sudden Fear: "It's wonderful to be casting myself. For 20 years I have been a gangster's moll. At last I am wellborn. I'm a novelist, yes, a successful novelist. You don't think I'd play an unsuccessful novelist in my first picture...
...produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) is a strikingly new kind of Lillian Hellman play. The plot is not at all striking and is secondary to the people; the people are pretty average people, neither vipers nor vixens. The scene is the South-an elegant summer boarding house run by a wellborn, middle-aged spinster. The guests are largely people of her own generation and kind-fiberless, frustrated people: a quiet, cynical drinker who has never married; a quiet-seeking general married to a fool; a confused young man halfheartedly about to marry the spinster's French niece...
Candidate Battle, a state senator from Charlottesville, won by a comfortable 23,000 votes over his only serious competitor, wellborn, New-Dealing Francis Pickens Miller, who had the help of Virginia's growing Negro vote and its labor unions...