Word: dad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blue Chip is not so much a novel as a fictional memoir warmly evocative of another time. Author Rennie's granddad was a great plunger in Colorado silver; his bankruptcy in the panic of 1893 was "fabulous." Her dad, like Jim Packer, was a speculator in Arizona copper. Young Tommy Packer, who tells the story of his father's faith and failure, does it with a mixture of sympathy, skepticism and faith as authentic as it is engaging...
...that only the spirit could heal, hated the very idea of medicine and hysterically begged Luke to forget it. Daddy Marsh, the crude, unscrupulous owner of a string of harness shops, insisted that Luke shift his sights to business and the big money. Luke obediently said yes, mother, yes, dad; but what his parents never knew was that they had produced one of life's rare ones: a truly dedicated...
...Appleton's say-so for proof that Tom was an inventive genius. Today's schoolboy savants want the incredible, but they want it backed by a patter of scientific know-how. And of course the dialogue has changed. The Tom of 1910 put real enthusiasm into "Now, dad, you'll see me scooting around the country on a motorcycle." Tom Jr.'s buddy ribs him with "Well, fly boy, want to sell your jet cheap and buy a windmill...
Still, the new ones are a remarkable echo of the old. Coincidence is used just as recklessly; the old fictional virtues of pluck and luck dominate every page. But Tom Jr. has it all over his proud dad as an inventor. Where the old hero aroused the admiration of his fans by changing the gear ratio to get unheard-of speed out of his motorcycle, his son completes a revolutionary radioactivity detector overnight. In 1910, Tom had his readers chewing their nails when he ascended in a crude dirigible. In 1954's Tom Swift and His Flying...
...corporation, claim that so far the new Tom Swift Jr. series has been entrusted to a single Appleton. He has already turned out three. With thousands of new sales outlets, including Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, young Tom stands a chance of doing as well as his great dad...