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...Southern Violet...
...were ashamed and embarrassed by the vituperations of Tom ("Shrinking Violet") Linder. We thought his kind died "four score and nine years ago." We of the famed 82nd Airborne Division, who have fought and worked beside many of Georgia's higher-class citizens-notably Negroes-are inclined to believe that Linder is the "immigrant of lower standards...
Sure enough, this week Shrinking Violet Linder raised his head and said that he would run for governor of Georgia...
...Habebit Humus. In Stafford, England, Violet Shaw, 64, learning that her late husband already had another wife when he married her in 1938, sued his estate for breach of promise...
...bumper crop of 1,320,000 lbs. of jasmine blossoms. This could only cause trouble because: 1) there was already a surplus left over from last year; 2) cut-rate jasmine essences from Italy, Spain and Holland have been cutting into the Grasse market; and 3) some natural essences (violet, lilac, lily of the valley) have been driven from the market by cheaper and better synthetic scents made in Germany and Switzerland...