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...since he left Princeton in 1929, managing editor of the radio March of Time since 1941. A redhaired, wry, witty compendium of universal fact and theory, Norris is also a not able Aberdeen Angus cattle raiser and barbershop tenor. Co-author of The World and America is Folklorist Carl Carmer (Listen for a Lonesome Drum), a specialist in local American history ever since he left a northern professorship to teach at the University of Alabama...
...seven volumes (The Chicago by Harry Hansen; The St. Lawrence by Henry Beston; The Lower Mississippi by Hodding Carter ; The Allegheny by Frederick Way Jr. ; The Sangamon by Edgar Lee Masters; The Kentucky by T. D. Clark; The Wisconsin by August Derleth) were found by Judges Carl Carmer, Amy Loveman, Franklin Hopper, Lewis Gannett, Nicholas Wreden to be "the best example of creative publishing in the year...
America Sings - Carl Carmer...
Best thing about Genesee Fever is the wealth of Carmer's authentic, affectionately painted regional period detail. He makes such dusty props as oiled-paper windows, Conestoga wagons and Liberty Poles as fresh as a glimpse at the youth of one's greatgrandparents; makes a succulent novelty of such frontier diet as pickerel, wild turkey, the bright yellow Indian corn...
...novelist, he must be credited with one novelty: he endows his heroine with boyish rather than feminine charms. That was the fashion in early post-war novels, but faded during the Long Armistice. Author Carmer, who uses not one but two boy-bodied women, may be starting a new phase in the cycle of charm...