Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This provocative passage, encountered ten years ago in .an obscure account of early voyages in the Pacific, set Author Ford, a New York adman, romancing, researching, buttonholing his friends. By last week he had salted his tale down on paper. An ingenious circumstantial account, running to 363 close-type pages, of how and why his hero landed on Guam, Death Sails With Magellan is about equally divided between Magellan's voyage and Gonzalo's castaway life among the handsome Chamorri tribesmen...
MIDAS OF THE ROCKIES-Frank Waters -Covici, Friede ($3). A native son's firecracker salute to Winfield Scott Stratton, discoverer of Colorado's fabulous Cripple Creek gold mine, the ex-carpenter whose eccentricities, secretive dissipations, tightfistedness, double-dealing make lively reading, but not, in Author Waters' account, much sense...
Martin D. Schwartz, '38, gives a spirited account of the career of "Middletown's Maverick Mayor." It is a good piece of contemporary history writing...
...these two charmingly mad Russians, therefore, there must be combined with the resourcefulness of living on no income, the fortitude to leave untouched the largest account in the Bank of France...
When in 1794 James Boswell lay dying, he wrote to his brother in London, asking him to deposit ?5 to the account of a Rev. Mr. Baron: "He takes charge of paying the gratuity to Mary Broad." This letter set investigators whoofing on the trail of another promising secret of Boswell's abundant life. At trail's end was: no dirt, as had been half expected, but further data on a seldom-mentioned side of the little man-his interest in prison reform. Mary Broad, it turns out, was the alias of one Mary Bryant, who was convicted...