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[Black and white photo of a man in a suit, spans both columns]
"COLONEL" TART, D & S clerk-dispatcher, easily qualified for the fra-
ternity with these black whiskers, on outsized Texan hat, and string tie.

BROTHERS
of the
BRUSH

Durham
lets
its
hair
down
for its
100th BIRTHDAY PARTY

IF the Smith Brothers of cough drop
fame could have visited Durham last
month they would have blushed right
through their facial foliage.

The city's "Brothers of the Brush,"
some 6,000 strong, were wearing some
of the fanciest whiskers ever grown in
these parts--all colors, all sizes, all
shapes, all grades. Shaving had become
a shameful thing and small boys were
proudly improvising mustaches with
shoe polish and charcoal.

The inspiration for the whiskers was
the tumultuous celebration of Dur-
ham's 100th anniversary, a week-long
birthday party complete with parades,
costume balls, pageants, and all man-
ner of shennanigan. For several months
the tobacco capital, proud of its heri-
tage, spared no effort to get its citizens
in the proper mood for celebrating the
final act of "Durham's Centurama," a
full week after the celebration began.

Probably for the first time in its
colorful history Durham looked back
to see from whence it had come. The

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