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What's more, each of the thousands of products we make is developed in some of the largest and most complete laboratories in the paper, cone and tube industry: our own. And none of them go to consumers. Because all our products are made to solve specialized industrial problems. We'd like to tell you more about all the things we \ do. If you'll write Sonoco Products Company, \\ Department SL,Hartsville, S.C. 29550, we'll ~ send you a copy of our ~\l capabilities booklet. ~,~ Because other than i.\~ our name, there's at \~ least one product we ~~~ want to be remem- li bered by. ;c: The one we can make for you. Sonoco Products Company. Innovators in paper and plastics. f'e ~ ® so 485 THE MAGAZINE sandl apper. UNIQUE! READERS' COMMENTS 4 NEXT MONTH 6 BUSINESS AVIATION 9 Robert Somers CUCUMBER KING CARROLL BARNES 14 Harold Rogers THE SPECTATORS ARE CAGED 16 Tom Hamrick ARTIST OLIVIA McGEE 22 Charles M. 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We ask that the letters be held to 150 words or less. Excerpts from this month's letters are pre­ sented below. I wish to take this opportunity to thank Mary Stewart Allan for her letter to the editor that ap­ peared in the February issue of BATTLEGROUND OF FREEDOM: Sandlapper. Prof. G. Theodore Wichmann was the Man of Music SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE REVOLUTION and Music Education for many By Nat and Sam Hilborn years in Charleston and should The authors present a concise and readable diary of South Carolina's strategic role in the American Revolution. A long-neglected aspect of colorful Palmetto never be forgotten. State history comes alive in this attractive volume. Over 200 illustrations, 92 in full color. Thomas R. Thornley ISBN 0-87844-000-3 i 256 pp. / $20 / 50</ postage. Professor of Music Campbell College FROM STOLNOY TO SPARTANBURG: Buies Creek, North Carolina THE TWO WORLDS OF A FORMER RUSSIAN PRINCESS By Marie Gagarine The account of Francis Salvador The author, who is now a Wofford College professor, once served as a in the March issue of Sandlapper is lady-in-waiting to the last Russian empress. Madame Gagarine's memoirs read like very interesting but errs in one re­ a novel and give insight into traditional Russian customs and war-time hardships. The author writes of her narrow escape from Revolutionary Russia, her years of spect. It states that this man has exile in various European countries, and her new life as governess and teacher in been forgotten until the present the United States. 8 pp. of photographs. time .... ISBN 0-87844-000-1 / 152 pp./ $6.95 / 25</ postage. It is certain that Col. Hamrick would not have made this mistake SOUTH CAROLINA: A SYNOPTIC HISTORY FOR LAYMEN if he could have consulted Mr. Tom Tobias (to whom he referred) who By Lewis P. Jones This highly readable, informal history of South Carolina by the chairman of died recently. For Mr. Tobias was Wofford College's History Department, first serialized in Sandlapper from January one of the Steering Committee of 1969 to September 1970, has now been compiled in a softcover, indexed edition the Bicentennial Celebration of the which provides a handy reference for the lay historian. Illustrated with Jewish Community of Charleston approximately 40 photographs and maps. 1750-1950-at which time one of ISBN 0-87844-004-6 / 272 pp. / $3.95 / 25</ postage. the featured events was unveiling a bronze plaque to Francis Salvador SANDLAPPER 1968 in Washington Square (City Hall Although the fust three issues of Sandlapper- The Magazine of South Carolina are out of print, they are incorporated in Sandlapper 1968. This colorful volume is a compilation of all Sandlapper articles printed in 1968. Contents include: 183 T e. articles, 201 color photographs, 598 black and white photographs, 84 maps, drawings and paintings. CO DEN PH(ASANT ISBN 0-87844-002-X / 724 pp./ $15 / 50</ postage. S2 s..... He;e,. !( .... d Gn•l'lvill•, S... 1h Carolina. HOME BY THE RIVER 2H-13 6~ 2'16 01 By Archibald Rutledge South Carolina's Poet Laureate and award-winning prose writer explores the world of mystical beauty and historic charm at his ancestral home, Hampton o\~~q, 9,r?Q.ss Plantation. This limited reprint edition contains 28 full-page photographs. W\..... E'. ~ ..... h ISBN 0-87 844-003-8 /196 pp. / $10 / 25</ postage. C,tts· bec•rcd,we '-&asor,e.s 4 Sandlapper We burn a lot of coal. leave no carbon waste at all. Of course, we're not the only ones. But we never want you to get wind We also borrow a lot of water for South Carolina is a leader in pollu­ of it. our steam plants, but you'd never tion control. That's why the electrostatic waste know it. And we're trying to be the leader collectors we're installing on our Because we return it to the stream in South Carolina. high smokestacks are 99% effective.