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...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 for the fact that he has noble Norwegian blood...
...Grandpa Storm hates to see Alaska's wealth drained away by "outside" (Stateside) capitalists. To him Alaska is the last frontier of both the nation's natural wealth and the individual's freedom. He lives in an old cabin, runs a high-minded weekly, and fights with Grandpa Kennedy for the mind of beautiful Christine. In Author Ferber's hands, the battle is unequal. Not only does Christine refuse to marry the rich man's son Kennedy has in mind for her, but it is also reasonably clear that a part-Eskimo pilot, one Ross...
...Omaha newsmen Grandpa Harry Truman confided that he dasn't lug around a picture of little Clifton Truman Daniel, 4 months. Reason: "The boss [Bess] won't let me. She's afraid I'd bore everyone." At week's end Harry and Bess dropped in at a Southern California kiddies' mecca, Disneyland, which their grandson is too young to enjoy yet. Among the diversions enjoyed by the young-in-heart Trumans: a ride on a Mark Twain riverboat, a rocket trip to the moon...
...Once upon a time there was a large-eared, drip-nosed fugitive from multiplication and Sunday school ... He lived in the Victorian, gabled, ginger-bready house of his maternal grandpa, a sea captain with a bushy mustache. This man's name was Edward Hall Adkins. The Negroes called him Cap'n Hawley and the white folks called him Ned Hall. Ned could shoot very fine and whittle very good and in his eyes a small boy was never never very wrong...
...Grandpa Jones and Hank Snow are admittedly inferior to Thomas L. Thomas, and "The Drunkard's Song" may not equal the musical and aesthetic excellence of "Auf dem Wasser du singer." Either in spite of this, or because of this, however, hillbilly music remains popular at Harvard...