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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Rennie gets her Arizona landscape down effectively with a commendable minimum of adjectives; even that tired old setting for fiction, the boom town, is done with simple freshness. The Blue Chip ends neither happily nor unhappily, but inevitably. When a financial depression and uncontrollable underground water combine to ruin the mine, Jim Packer has to take a job in another town. But with the family packed and waiting to go, he saddles a horse and packs another for a trip into the hills to follow a hunch about an old, deserted gold mine. His parting words: "Goodbye, boys. Take...
After the general introductory essays, the book's description of the effects of climate ends abruptly and there begins a more pedantic probing into the causes of glaciers and methods of dating them. Here the layman will be tempted to lay Climatic Change quietly down, and return to science fiction. But this would be a mistake, for the intensive study of glaciers is an unusual exhibition of all the--ologists from nuclear theorists to lake bed diggers (palcoliminologists...
...Farmer dominates by giving farmers articles on everything from "Rhinitis in Hogs," "Bible Readings" and "Roughage for Dairy Cows" to "16 Ways to Beat the Feed Shortage" and "Poisons and Their Uses." Between pages and pages of four-color ads (beer and liquor are banned) are reader-participation contests, fiction, how-to-do-it articles, outspoken editorials and dozens of other features that fit within the magazine's editorial formula: "Stories [and articles] that are wholesome and inspiring without being goody-goody or pedantic...
...Swift went the way of such other grand heroes of boyhood as Frank Merriwell and the fun-loving Rover Boys. What finished the Tom Swift series was a combination of crushers which could as easily have done in Ulysses or Sir Lancelot. A world war and stranger-than-fiction real inventions had furnished competitive excitements that made Tom .seem a little archaic. The paper shortage did not help, and almost as disastrous was the decision of Author Victor Appleton, Tom's creator, to let his hero marry sweet, pert Mary Nestor. Any ten-year-old boy could have told...
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