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GENESEE FEVER-Carl Carmer -Farrar & Rinehart...
...Carl Carmer's four volumes of non-fiction (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum, etc.) have made him one of the most popular of U.S. regional specialists. This, his first novel, is just as regional, just as competent, and will probably be even more popular than his nonfiction. Scene: Carmer's favorite Genesee country of upper New York State, where he spent his boyhood. Time: the 1790s...
Among these historical drives and personalities Author Carmer sets his fictional machinery in motion. Hero Nathan Hart, as a fugitive Whiskey Rebel and amateur portrait painter, leads readers on a Cook's tour of the whole valley civilization, from the Williamson mansion to the Indian village of Squawkie Hill. He also has three love affairs: with The Friend's pet priestess, with patrician Eleanor Fitzhugh, and with Catherine O'Bail, whom at long last, despite her Indian blood, he marries in defiance of the Valley gentry...
...tongues, although the most encyclopedic U.S. collectors-Alan Lomax of the U.S. Library of Congress, Chicago's Poet Carl Sandburg, Boston University Professor Horace Reynolds, Radio Singers Frank Luther and Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Mary Wheeler of Paducah, Ky., Ernest C. Krohn of St. Louis, Author Carl Carmer, "Daddy of the Blues" W. C. Handy-did not know it. Apparently it was never published. But Cincinnati rivermen remembered Hot Shot, so did Captain D. T. Wright of the Waterways Journal in St. Louis. Two Memphis experts-Joe Curtis and Charles L. Maughan-narrowed the authorship of the song down...
...Medical School recipients are Cecil F. Baxter 1M,; McLemore Bouchelle 1M., Theodore S. Cobbey Jr. 1M., Carmer Hadley 1M., Thomas V. Hedley 1M., George W. Henry 1M., Harry F. Hinckley Jr. 1M., Francis R. Lane 1M., William F. Pollock 1M., William Ridder 1M., Israel H. Scheinberg 1M., Daniel Sciarra 1M., and Chiu-an Wang...