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...TELL OF TIME-Laura Krey -Houghton Mifflin...
...interesting sample of the latter is . . . and Tell of Time, a 712-page novel based on the post-Civil War background of Author Krey's Texas forbears (the family still owns a plantation in the cotton-growing Brazos Valley of southeastern Texas). Here the tedium of the narrative contrasts particularly with the dramatic events in which the family was involved. The Civil War itself was only slightly more violent than Reconstruction Texas, with its swarms of ruined Confederate soldiers turned loose, its bitter landowners turned Ku Kluxers to fight a black army of occupation...
...retiring President Charles Austin Beard, 59, famed liberal historian (The Rise of American Civilization, with his wife) and onetime Columbia government professor. The Commission's research director, George Sylvester Counts, is a professor of education at Columbia's Teachers' College. Its chairman, August C. Krey, teaches history and the history of education at University of Minnesota. Other Commissioners include: Ada Louise Comstock, president of Radcliffe College; Isaiah Bowman, director of American Geographical Society, Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, Columbia historian. One of four who refused to sign the report was University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist...
...Krey, A W, Boston, 525 Mass avenue