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...Rhett DuPont is top man in the 100-yard backstroke with 1:09.5, while team captain Ron Mischner leads 50-yard freestyle swimmers with a 25.0 time. Both were on All-American prep school relay teams last year. Mischner while at Lawrenceville and DuPont while at Deerfield...
...seriously. Self-consciously trying to be daring, they inject bad taste into normal banality by using "hell" as a drawing card. This is especially obvious in the embarrassment that everyone seems to feel when a character swears in American movies. With the revival of Gone With the Wind came Rhett Butler's famous exit line, "Frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn." Coming as the final word of exasperation from a much put-upon hero, the sentence itself was quite inoffensive. But as the only such word in almost four hours of dialogue it had a terrific shock effect...
...line, "what the he..." in the blast of an auto horn. Afterwards, when "Go to hell" was not only said but repeated (the priest, to whom it was said, evidently could no more credit his hearing than could the audience) there was the same embarrassed reaction as to Rhett Butler's line. Since stevedores and gangsters had managed without any naughty words during the rest of the picture, when they came it was with surprise...
Died. Burnet Rhett Maybank, 55, genial, aristocratic onetime (1939-41) governor of South Carolina, longtime (1941-54) U.S. Senator; of a heart ailment; in Flat Rock, N.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Maybank was not the last of the Southern aristocrats in the Senate. Virginia's Harry Byrd is still very much alive. And as Burnet Rhett Maybank was buried in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery last week, South Carolinians could remember how deep the stream of family runs in the low country. At the graveside was Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr., 30, a rising young member of the state legislature...