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...newspaperman went up the hill to Mr. Birger's roadhouse, a stark oblong building on the edge of some woods. A sign, needing paint, swung over the porch. It said "Shady Rest." The interviewer found Mr. Birger in the cellar, playing with a white dog. He had on a bullet-proof jacket. Six men sat around, spitting and smoking and laughing at the puppy. They all had rifles. Outside in the shed was an armored touring car that Charles Birger used when he drove abroad on his affairs. The roadhouse .was barricaded. Machine guns looked out between the shutters...
...Norman, Okla., Custodian T. I. Stark of the city dump ground stuck to his post for five days, digging diligently with a broken knife in the garbage pile, examining every orange rind and scrap of paper, until he found a tiny bit of blackened bandage. Twentyfour hours after this find, a tiny silver tube was found in the litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap...
HEAVEN TREES?Stark Young? Scribner ($2). When Critic Stark Young of the New Republic was a small boy, he lived (he now pretends) on a big, easygoing plantation near Memphis. It was called "Heaven Trees," a place of calm walks and lawns, fragrant with myrtle and syringa. His gentle Southern kinfolk were surrounded with their slaves, cottonfields and traditional propertied indolence, the men riding blooded horses and holding long argument over cold juleps; the ladies, pert and lovely to behold, keeping the large household continually open to visitors for a night, a week, a year...
...Stark Young is only 45, so that only by hearsay could he have known these relatives of his at "Heaven Trees" before the Civil War. But his keen understanding and prodigious talent for transcribing subtle values have made of them, with no particular plot or thesis, as wholly real and charming a group of personalities as you are likely to meet in many a year...
...Randall Oliver is her forbidden suitor, a cool young elegant, tailored by Rambeaux & Rambeaux of Memphis; and Charles Boardman, whom Georgia later married, rides off to college with a slave, two horses, dogs and his gun. Such central story as the book has is that of Cousin Ellen Stark, who comes to "Heaven Trees" from chill and granite Vermont, there to unfold from a pale violet of a girl into the rarest Southern orchid of them...