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...TREES-Conrad Richter-Knopf ($2.50). The first 70 pages of The Trees, which tell of the Luckett family alone in the tremendous forest of the Northwest Territory, build a savage, hypnotic atmosphere of a nation's prenatal silence. Once the Lucketts begin meeting people, and once life begins its shift from the hunter's to the farmer's economy, the story relaxes towards more ordinary folk-stuff. But Conrad Richter can teach most U. S. folk-writers a trick or two in the right use of archaic language, and his pioneers, unlike most in fiction, never preen...
High Jump.--Tie for first between Blake (P)and Luckett (P) third, Steinmetz (P). Height...