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...MONONGAHELA (239 pp.)-Richard Bissell-Rinehart...
...outdoor man's work: he was a river pilot. He wrote a novel about it two years ago (A Stretch on the River-TIME, July 24, 1950), and the river descriptions and river lingo rang fair and true. He writes just as effectively in The Monongahela and even gives a fair amount of his secret away: "In order to have a river in your blood, unforgettably and forever . . . you have to work on her for wages." In 1944 he piloted a diesel towboat on the Monongahela for seven months...
Nuggets & Chasers. Bissell did some library work this time and, like his fellow grubbers in the River series, passes along his share of historical nuggets, e.g., in the 1790s, there were some 1,300 stills in western Pennsylvania; no less an authority than George Washington pronounced Monongahela rye "excellent,'' etc. But what gives the book its special tang is Pilot Bissell's own experiences on the old Mon. When he reported for duty on the Coal Queen, he saw a dirty one-stacker, "a piece of marine junk." That was winter time...
...Monongahela, Pa., Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Loutitt, close by their radio, kept the long vigil that mothers & fathers were keeping everywhere. "We just sat there and listened," said Mrs. Loutitt. "We hoped and we prayed, because all we knew was that Charles was missing and the truck he had been driving was found full of bullet holes. Then we heard his name...
...Fellows are Ernest L. DeVore of Monongahela, Pa., William E. England of Atlanta, Ga., James M. Flynn of Toledo, O., William A. Kittel of Woronoco, Carl W. Lindner of Silver Spring, Md., Roger J. Maher of Pittsburgh, Nathan Norman of Allston, Joseph P. O'Donnell of Somerville, and Gordon A. Padgett of Savannab...