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STARS FELL ON ALABAMA-Carl Carmer -Farrar & Rinehart...
Alabama is home to 2,700,000 U. S. citizens, but to Carl Carmer, a Yankee who lived there six years, it is also a queer place. Says he: "The Congo is not more different from Massachusetts or Kansas or California." His book, an anecdotal narrative of some of his experiences in Alabama, goes far toward bearing out his thesis. But Alabamians would have to be thin-skinned indeed to object to the tone of Author Carmer's remarks. Though he makes many an explicit criticism, points silently at some grim conclusions, he also tosses many a bouquet, with...
...Author Carmer went to the University of Alabama, near Tuscaloosa, as associate professor of English. He was greeted hospitably, despite the fact that he was born in New York State. On his first evening in Tuscaloosa he made the acquaintance of the Southern vin du pays, corn whiskey. He never learned to like it, calls it "as vile and as uglily potent a liquor as ever man has distilled." One day in class he made the innocent mistake of comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon...
TODAY Anthropology 11Emerson F Chemistry A Abrams to Carden Harvard 3 Carmer to Kazanjian Harvard 5 King to Wright Harvard 6 Chemistry 3 Allen to Jacobson Harvard 2 Jaffee to Welse Holden Chapel Chemistry 21 Sever 17 Economics 1a Alexanian to Long Sever 35 Marchant to Zofnass Sever 36 Economics 14 Emerson F Engin. Sciences 75 Pierce 204 English 3b Emerson D English 11b Emerson A, J English 29b Geol. Lect. Rm. French 8 Anopolsky to Iselin Sever 5 Jones to Willelt Sever 6 Geology 14 Sever 23 German 1b Sever 11 German 5 Sever 23 History 8 Sever...
...Carmer, E. B., 11 Howland...