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Married. Nancy Dabney Roosevelt, 21, daughter of Lieut. Colonel Archibald Roosevelt, granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt; and Ensign William Eldred Jackson, 25, only son of Supreme Court rustice Robert H. Jackson; in Cold Spring Harbor...
...story of Tap Roots is startling in a different way. Morna Dabney was betrothed to Clay Maclvor, but when infantile paralysis withered her right leg, he made off with her sister Aven ("graceful as a waterfall"). Morna had to content herself, illicitly, with the "incredibly handsome" Keith Alexander, while the leg limbered up. Keith (in nonfiction the remarkable Alexander Keith McClung) was the bitter bastard son of a great man in Washington. Keith shot 17 men for asking who. Author Street keeps his guesses to himself...
Another character is Indian Chieftain Tishomingo, a wizard with a bullwhip, who had spent his life trying to invent a Choctaw alphabet, and succeeded. Tishomingo has some of the fabulous charm which Fenimore Cooper gave his aborigines. And the last days and death of tough old Sam Dabney skirt the edge of really good romancing, only now & then breaking bounds to snatch a slice...
...PROMISED LAND-James Street -Dial ($3). The huge. Indian-fighting Georgia cracker Sam Dabney and his sister Honoria, a burlap knock-off of Scarlett O'Hara, start at the bottom and work their way up. Also involved in these 816 pages are Tecumseh, the Natchez Trace, the cotton gin, the Battle of New Orleans, the opening up of Alabama and Mississippi. For readers to whom vivid frontier data is cheesecake, there are enough exposed bosoms,-vengeance motifs and brutalities to go round...
...Dunn, New Bedford Edward H. Cook Myra Martin, New York Paul W. Cook Lorraine Salsmen, Radcliffe James F. Cooney Mary Frances Northrup, Hopedale Gilbert Corwin Elaine McCune, Bradford Junior College Gerard H. Coster, Jr. Bernice Epstein, Brooklyn, N. Y. Kieran H. Culliton Jean MacLaughlin, Brimmer-May School Lewis S. Dabney Joan Edmonds, New York Willard Dalrymple Christina Rossetti, Rye Beach David J. Davis Mary Marsh, Wellesley Henry H. Dearing, Jr. Rena Zary, Cleveland Wheeler Dennis, Jr. Peggy Lewis, Packer Institute John W. Dixon Audrey Armstrong, Pembroke Donald H. Eldredge, Jr. Betty McClure, Wellesley Robert Ellery Fanny Gassett, Perkins Olaf...