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Died. Carl Carmer, 82, American historian and novelist; after a long illness; in Bronxville, N.Y. As a young English professor at the University of Alabama after World War I, Carmer wandered through the backwoods of the state, talking with natives both black and white. The result: Stars Fell on Alabama, a vivid collection of country lore. Its success led him back home to "York State," as he liked to call the 55 upstate New York counties, to write his loving chronicles of the region, including Listen for a Lonesome Drum, Dark Trees to the Wind and a novel, Genesee Fever...
foreword by CARL CARMER...
HURRICANE LUCK, by Carl Carmer (Aladdin; $2), finds the author of Stars Fell on Alabama in a Florida seaport town telling the heartwarming story of a boy who loves his fisherman dad and vice versa...
...Carl Carmer...
...music and accepted a birthday book of greetings from several hundred statesmen and former colonists. She was, said Mrs. MacDowell in her thank-you speech, "a very ordinary woman who was given a very great opportunity which I se zed.'' And from Colony President Carl Carmer there was further good news. The proceeds of a fund-raising campaign now under way will be turned over to Mrs. MacDowell on her 95th birthday next November. The hope, he said, is to raise "a thousand dollars for each year of Mrs. MacDowell's life and a few extra thousand...