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Belinda Dan (Dobson) was born in a barn near Carleton, N. C., the daughter of a farmer who also made coffins for a living. Ambitious even in early girlhood, she hated the hard, constricting life of the farm, finally ran away. When she decided to become a nurse, the story really begins...
...WEATHER IN THE STREETS-Rosamond Lehmann-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). The author of Dusty Answer, Invitation to the Waltz follows a too-familiar modern pattern. Olivia leaves her literary husband, slips into a love affair with the Prince Charming of her girlhood, finds out he is not worth the trouble he makes...
...Vimy Ridge to unveil two vast pylons designed by Canadian Sculptor Walter Allard and carved with the names of 12,000 Canadian dead. A rumor persisted that Queen Mary will also leave Britain for the first time since the War, pay a visit to Nazi Germany to see her girlhood home, the ducal castle of Teck in Württemberg...
...town for the insurance. Central character is Shackle Redmon, tall, 17-year-old, dirty-faced boy who worked in his father's brickyard, occasionally got into knock-down fights with the old man, fell violently in love with the village heiress. Dorothy Hopper had been called "Pete" since girlhood. At 19 she was a sophisticated young lady who had been to Nashville, read the works of James Oliver Curwood. and belonged to the fashionable Campbellite Church. When Shackle learned that she painted her toe nails red, he thought: "She sho must be a hot rock!" But Pete ran around...
Simply and directly written, Old Jules is the story of a tenacious career in a tough country, presents intelligible pioneers who were made coarse by hardship and loneliness. Although she confesses to an abiding fear of "Old Jules" that dated from her girlhood, Mari Sandoz writes of him with sympathy, without sentimentality, with an honest facing of some unpleasant aspects of his character...