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...author, who once wrote a bestseller about the Sears-Roebuck catalogue, was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta country he writes about. Instead of a serious study of the cotton economy and the problem of race relations, he has reported loquaciously, and with the leisurely humor of an old-school Mississippian, on the moods and customs of Delta society...
...unenthusiastically crowded square in Burgos last week one of Europe's last remaining old-school dictators rose to congratulate himself. On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power even Francisco Franco himself displayed only lukewarm enthusiasm. "Sometimes," he mused, "I wonder what will happen if the people who have given me their support in these past ten years will give me some support for more years when our problems are solved...
Died. Eva Roberts Cromwell Stotesbury, 81, old-school grande dame, whose parties (often more than 300 guests) paced Palm Beach society for more than two decades, widow of Philadelphia Financier Edward Townsend Stotesbury, doting mother of politically ambitious James Henry Roberts Cromwell; of coronary thrombosis; in Palm Beach...
Died. Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne, 74, old-school Belgian Ambassador to London, bemonocled dean of the diplomatic corps of the Court of St. James's; of a heart attack; in London. A diplomat's diplomat, he loved verbal jousts with the press, once defined his job: "A good ambassador is one who carries off the pork without spilling the beans...
Like many an old-school newspaperman, George W. Greene, publisher of the Waupun (Wis.) Leader-News, suffered from a familiar occupational disease. His own peculiar symptom was a devotion to what he calls New England boiled dinners (bourbon & water) for breakfast. Now he wanted his 3,127 readers to know that he was a changed man. Wrote he: "This is probably the strangest editorial you ever read. It is the strangest one I ever expect to write...