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Running the show this year are Dr. Frank Monaghan, assistant professor of history at Yale; Author-Journalist Marquis James, twice a Pulitzer Prizewinner for historical biography; Carl Carmer, popular best-seller historian. Under these three, Cavalcade this year has explored some of the more engaging byways of U. S. history-Sam Houston's ups & downs as a friend of the Cherokees; Mehitabel Wing's wild horseback ride down the shores of the Hudson River to win a reprieve from the British Governor for her husband; the story of Squanto, the helpful Pokanoket Indian who hailed the Pilgrims...
...Hyman Levy's "Modern Science" is a difficult but rewarding study of the physical sciences. . . Agnes Newton Keith's "Land Below the Wind" is a chronicle of four years in North Bornce. . . . Phil Stong's "Horses and American Social life and manners. Altogether a good thing. . . Carl Carmer's "The Hudson" is a fine compound of history and legend by one of our best investigators of regional America. . . . Granville Bick's "Figures of Transition" is an intelligent and illuminating study of six English writers at the end of the last century whose work serves as a transition from the Victorian...
...American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze, announced that the local cider mill was open for business; Raymond Massey recited from Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Bob Benchley skitted through a shopping trip; Joe Cook imitated his three Hawaiians; Novelist Carl Carmer (The Hudson, Listen for a Lonesome Drum), countrywide correspondent for Pursuit of Happiness, reported the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Hartford Courant, the latest folklore on rattlesnakes...
...message was signed by Roger N. Baldwin '04, director of the Union, and Carl Carmer A.M. '15, Osmond K. Fraenkel '07, Quincy Howe '21, and Harry F. Ward A.M. '98, all directors of the Union...
...years ago Carl Carmer, writer & folklorist (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum)., put on a radio program called "Your Neck of the Woods." devoted to the folklore and folksongs of different States. From it sprang a plan to issue a comprehensive series of phonograph albums devoted to the songs of every State...