Th' %Vs Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Viriing, Editor
< Vr‘ TRYON, N. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1951
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ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE
AT TRYON, N. C UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879_
Weather Friday: High 54, low
36, rain .13, Rel. Hum. 92; Satur
day high 55, low 37, rain .45, Rel.
Hum. 81; Sunday high 67, low 31,
Rel. Hum. 62 . . . United Nations
advancing now” in Korea . ."This
is national brotherhood week.
Thursday will be a holiday for
many government agencies includ
ing post offices, banks, etc., honor
ing Washington’s birthday, Feb. 22.
. . . Kiwanis meets Tuesday at
1 p. m., at Oak Hall with Col.
A. L. Smith in charge of the
program .... “Be true to your
teeth or they’ll be false to you”
reads an advertisement . . . Affec
tion makes friends”, according to
Archibald Rutledge, noted writer.
He said in a recent speech that
people don’t use affection enough.
Invite people to see you and be
nice to them. It solves a lot of
problems. ....
BASKETBALL: Columbus and
Chesnee boys and girls basketball
teams play tonight at Columbus at
7:30.
HONOR COURT TONIGHT
The Polk .. County Boy Scout
• Court of Honor will be held tonight
at 7:45 at Tryon school. Public
is invited. The Scouter supper will
be served at 6:30 in the school
Home Economics room.
Tryon In the Literary World
Tryon has slipped unobstrusive
lv into the literary world. In “The
Far Side of Paradise,” Arthur
Mizener’s superb biography of the
late F. Scott Fitzgerald, several
pages are devoted to Scott’s life
in Tryon, in 1936, when he was a
guest at Oak Hall. The author
pays tribute to the kindness of
Lefty and Nora Flynn, who made
a valiant effort to bring order
into Scott’s chaotic life. He was a
constant visitor to their home in
Gillette Woods—the log cabin now
owned by the Clifford Cains.
The Flynns were equally inter
ested in “Scottie,” Fitzgerald’s
’teen-age daughter and it was at
their invitation that she spent her
school vacation period with them
in Tryon. When Scott left Tryon
he settled in Asheville to be near
his wife, Zelda, who was in a sana
torium nearby. The book contains
frequent allusions to return visits
to Tryon when “Fitzgerald took
Zelda to gatherings at the Flynns
or Bannings”. It was during his
stay in Asheville that Scott wrote
his last romantic love story, “The
Intimate Stranger,” based on ma
terial furnished by Mrs. Flynn.
The author deals sympathetically
with the brief, tragic period when
Scott lived in a cheap room in
Hendersonville, ill and practically
penniless.
Of the period in Tryon, Miizener
writes, “He took to eating at a
place called Missildine’s—and in
venfed all sorts of wonderful and
absurd stories about it.” Many
Tryonites will recall the Missildine
Theme Song, written by Scott and
sung to the tune of “Old Heidel
berg by a convivial group who
used to gather there for their; late
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