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PRAIRIE SCHOONER CARAVAN-Edited by Lowry C. Wimberly- University of Nebraska Press...
These, and 53 other folksy, jokesy short stories, essays, articles and poems by authors of the Midwest and Southwest (Jesse Stuart, Eudora Wel.ty, Frank Luther Mott, Mari Sandoz, Albert Halper, August Derleth, et al.), make up Prairie Schooner Caravan, an anthology culled from the University of Nebraska's 17-year-old quarterly, Prairie Schooner ("talent scout of the midlands...
...wore an Anzac's broad-brimmed field hat, on which he pinned the insignia of all the units fighting under him, including the Greeks. Occasionally he put-putted through the sky in a Fieseler Storch reconnoitering plane left behind by the Germans. His headquarters was an elaborate caravan of trucks captured in 1941 from Italian General "Electric Whiskers" Bergonzoli. There, seldom breaking his schedule of up at 6, to bed at 9, he met with his staff...
...when he broke through at El Alamein, trucks of General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell's service of supply had poured westward in a vast caravan. Cannonading was still audible when the white-gloved soldier-policemen waved them along the Road. For days an almost solid line of vehicles packed the highway-perhaps 100,000 motor vehicles-from El Alamein to Tobruk. (Comparable distance: New York to Buffalo...
...compelled African routes so alarmed British Overseas Airways that the Army's Air Transport Command has taken over. The question that needs answering soon is: at war's end, what is to become of these U.S.-built air bases on foreign soil? They represent great future air-caravan routes to rich new territory, and they cost a fortune. Who shall dictate how many, how often, and on what terms U.S., Brazilian, British, Dutch or Chinese planes shall use them...