Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Money Barks. In a similar spirit, the second of these books recalls the familiar theory that the American automobile has become less a means of transportation than a status symbol impossible to define, and lately, impossible to de-fin. Using this as a wheelbase. Author Douglass Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant) has produced a pleasant little fiction involving gadgeted and gusseted cars that are driven by a privileged group of dogs. The dogs themselves, of course, are at the mercy of the whims of the designers, i.e., the breeders. Author Wallop's protagonist is Hobbs...
...list of American girls who have spread commotion merely by traveling abroad-from Pocahontas to Henry James's Daisy Miller-must now be added the name of Catherine Fremantle. Strong-souled and sturdily uppered, she is the daughter and soul support of the suet-brained information officer at a U.S. Air Force base in Spain. The trouble is that Catherine's old man has messed things up. To the natives, if a .fish floats dead in the river, it is because the yanquis have irradiated the water supply. If a badly timed flight of B-525 interrupts...
Storyteller Masters, Calcutta-born Englishman-turned-American, whose tales of India (Nightrunners of Bengal, Coroman-del!) are full of a mysterious yeast, explains how he hit on Fandango Rock as a title. "Once, in a narrow street in Zaragoza, late at night, there were two radios" -one playing "the subtle, introspective, and uncompromising rhythms of a fandango," the other whanging out "a rock-and-roll, simple, outgoing-and uncompromising." Masters hits his moment of truth with this gone lyric...
...Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider. Skillfully worked excerpts from the 500,000 words of notes left by the cynical, naive, laughing man who lived on through fictional boys to become the father of much that is best in modern American literature...
...Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick...