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...Ghostland (Lippincott; $2.50), Fred Rothermell looks in on similar folk in the Ozarks. The Fulton family of Brooklyn, N. Y. arrives in the drought country to inherit a farm about the time John Steinbeck's Joad family (The Grapes of Wrath) leaves for California. Rothermell's prose is less artificial than Steinbeck's, his Ozark dialect more difficult than that of WPA's Tennesseans. Sample: "I done lak seed a sicknun woming a widdur nur no bline gurl withouten no pappy, but shore ez youah name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help...
...Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. and hoped to merge that company with some others (Hershey Chocolate, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) under the name Quality Products. The market broke, the bank interested in the deal lost interest, Kraft-Phenix finally was acquired by National Dairy Products, and another plan went to corporate ghostland...
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