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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irish came out with high score in another contest-alcoholism-and left the other nationalities trailing behind. We Irish don't do things halfway, particularly in a drinking contest. We just get in there and win-it's only when it's too late we find the darn stuff may be intoxicating...
...calls for new tactics. He assumes command of an experimental unit called Task Force Alpha, which includes the carrier Valley Forge, eight destroyers, two hunter-killer submarines, planes, helicopters and blimps. His job: to weld them into a unit, put each element to new jobs in an effort to find goblins farther away and faster...
...live in a Brooklyn housing project. All but a few of them are Negro; there are separate Puerto Rican gangs, and thoroughly integrated ones. The members are, in their own language, all "shook up" and cling together for defense against others as well as for the comradeship they can find nowhere else. They range in age from eleven to 20, occupy themselves chiefly with the protection of their own "turf" (territory). Trespassing on one gang's turf by another gang-or the stealing of another's property or girl, even an insult-may bring on councils...
...research, too: her book is very knowing about such matters as parkas, salmon fishing and Gold Rush prostitutes. She also makes an emotional and just plea for Alaskan statehood. But decades of panning fictional gold (Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk) have taught canny Prospector Ferber where to find the pay lode. Her heroine, Christine Storm, is beautiful enough to still the growl of a Malemute, so passionate about her native Alaska that she would not swap a fox parka for an autumn-haze mink. Grandpa Kennedy is a tycoon, but she prefers Grandpa Thor Storm. The name should prepare readers...
...from his shrewd, perceptive articles. When World War II begins, Ro goes right along with it, from blitzed London to the Pacific to the Nurnberg trials. He comes home still carrying in his heart the words spoken to him by H. G. Wells: "If you Americans can't find some way of carrying the burden of Empire, we are sunk...