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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice of the Book-of-the-Month-Club, Drums Along the Mohawk belongs in the imposingly conscientious series of novels (Erie Water, Rome Haul, The Big Barn) that covers New York history from 1776 to 1865. It begins with a long description of the labors of Gilbert and Lana Martin in establishing their farm at Deerfield Settlement, shifts to a glimpse of the local militia harrying suspected Loyalists, to the burning of Deerfield, the battle of Oriskany, the negotiations with Indians, the life of scouts and "timber beasts," the daily routine in stockades when the raiding parties were strong. Holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero's Reward | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

MADAME TOUSSAINT'S WEDDING DAY- Thad St. Martin-Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cajun Idyll | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...Carleton. Weakness of the team so far has been the failure of Outfielder Augie Galan to bat as well as he did last year. The Cardinals have Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, generally rated the best pitcher in baseball, and, at second base, the ablest recruit in the league, Stuart Martin, who is not to be confused with their famed third baseman. Pepper Martin, now playing at right field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball: Midseason | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...name which has for years been part of this panorama. They also found two that have belonged to it for less than six months, those of the only two players ever chosen for an All-Star team in their first season as major-leaguers. One was Stuart ("Stew") Martin who had certainly earned his position by ousting his own manager, famed Frankie Frisch, as the Cardinals' regular second baseman. A 22-year-old North Carolinian, who last year at this time was utility man on the Asheville team in the Piedmont League, Martin's batting average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball: Midseason | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...superlatively interesting. George Slocombe, like most of his British colleagues, is tired of it, remembers so much that he cannot recall what is important. He pays tribute to the race of Britain's foreign correspondents which largely disappeared with the 1920's: Wickham Steed, George Ward Price, Martin Donohoe, William Bolitho Ryall, Gordon Knox, Sisley Huddleston. Mournfully he adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Captains & King | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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