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Henry Cope grudgingly falls in love with Lady Molly, a statuesque but unaffected blonde who is completely captivated by his secret half-belief in an old family legend that he is descended from the Green People, a species of sea gypsies who live in an underground world called St. Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea Gypsy Legend | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

The climax is a warning to poets' wives. On the night Molly is sure Henry intends to leave with the sea gypsy, she determines on a desperate last defense: a diversion of the sea gypsy's attention to herself. The sea gypsy accepts, and the next morning her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea Gypsy Legend | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

A Nazarene preacher named S. T. Brogdon, out to be Governor of Texas, closed his campaign for the Democratic nomination last week. So did State Attorney General William McCraw of Dallas, Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson of Amarillo, Oilman Tom F. Hunter of Wichita Falls, seasoned campaigners all. And so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Biscuits Passed | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Strapping, black-haired, 46, conservatively dressed, grammatical but homespun, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel has further assets in a pretty grey-haired wife named Merle, two good-looking boys in their teens, Pat & Mike, and a cute 16-year-old daughter, Molly. All musical, the children accompanied him and his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Flour Salesman | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Like Huey Long the shortening salesman, Lee O'Daniel, flour salesman, has the common touch. He solicits campaign cash in little barrels (passed by smiling Pat, Mike & Molly) labeled "Flour-NOT Pork." As a slogan he uses a line from one of his songs: "Please pass the biscuits, Pappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Flour Salesman | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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