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White and Black. That afternoon Negroes entertained the President's wife. She had her picture taken with Negro leaders. She reviewed a parade of Negro soldiers from Camp Sutton, N.C., led by white officers. In the evening Mrs. Roosevelt gave the address that the Negroes had been anxious to hear, that the whites had feared would put kerosene on Salisbury's coals. Of 2,000 listeners, only 100 were white. Said Mrs. Roosevelt...
Brainard Cheney follows his Lightwood (TiME, Oct. 30, 1939) with a book which puts him high among the strictly regional novelists-a book so good (when it is) that its weaknesses are doubly deplorable. Through the career of Hero Rutliff ("Snake") Sutton, Cheney tells the history of raftsmanship along Georgia's Oconee and Altamaha Rivers, and describes the business of lumbering in Darien, on the Georgia coast, toward the end of the last century...
...Snake Sutton is a hard-muscled, sensitive, moral dimwit who climbs, tooth & nail, from social dereliction (a childhood among swamp Negroes) to the throat-cutting peak of local business and society (a timber firm of his own, a blueblood marriage). Then he goes back again. On the way up, he has an affair with a bordello keeper (part real, part Hollywood) and a fascinating raftsman's apprenticeship to a gigantic veteran of the rivers. He is the center, also, of some superb fights, crooked and raw deals, and river adventures...
Marriage Revealed. Betty Green Cordon, 19, Manhattan's "Deb No. 1" of 1941; and Private Robert Sutton Sallfield Jr., of Akron, Ohio last March...
Noise. A couple of days later employes at the Hotel Sutton in Manhattan heard the blaring radio in Eli and Madeline's room. The funny part was that it blared all one afternoon, through the night and into the next morning. Finally someone took a pass key, opened the door to look in. The suite was empty-except for a big woman all trussed up, lying on the floor in the bedroom...