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...Nobel Prize for literature went to the writer of The Thibaults (1 Mari Sandoz, 2 Romain Rolland, 3 Marcel Proust, 4 Sinclair Lewis, 5 Roger Martin du Card...
SLOGUM HOUSE-Mari Sandoz-Little, Brown...
...Slogum House, Mari Sandoz sets herself the gigantic task of making this unnatural mother humanly understandable, is kept from doing so by Gulla Slogum's many crimes, her lack of all familiar human characteristics except greed. An oldfashioned, 400-page chronicle, slow-moving despite its many melodramatic episodes, Slogum House is set against the same brutal Nebraska-pioneer background pictured in Mari Sandoz' Old Jules, which won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize in 1935. That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors...
...Greatest Race." Finns regularly win Olympic races at 3,000 metres or more. Last week three solemn Finns named Vol-mari Iso-Hollo, Gunnar Hoeckert and IImari Salminen won their specialties, the 3,000-metre steeplechase, the 5,000 and the 10,000-metre runs. With U. S. victories in the sprints and intermediate runs, outside competition centred, as usual, on the 1,500-metre race. Among 39 entrants, eight were outstanding. New Zealand had Jack Lovelock, onetime world-record miler. England had Stanley Wooderson, who had beaten Lovelock three consecutive times this year. Italy had Luigi Beccali, winner...
...JULES- Mari Sandoz- Little, Brown...