Aiken

Hixon has endorsed Texas Gov. Rick Perry, but he sounded like a Newt man Tuesday after Gingrich spoke to a packed house in Aiken.

Mr. Aiken dropped the window, and catching up his hat, hurriedly left the house.

Aiken exclaimed and stared at me apparently with increased interest.

Mr. Aiken responded, correctively and loftily: "Yes, my dear fellow, on the stage and in novels."

You are beginning to understand that many things have happened since you were in Aiken?

Outside, the main street of Aiken, broad enough to have made five New England streets, lay red and glaring in the sun.