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...cantaloupes, etc., which he promised to buy at market prices. He spent some $9,500 for shipping baskets, wrapping paper, etc. while he and his wife were doing some of the planting. Then Hudson started traveling up & down the valley, spreading his idea, hired a crew to run his planter. Three weeks ago he quit the U.P., got ready for the critical first harvest...
...Lion & the Scepter. Ibn Saud's paternal great-great-great-grandfather was a mighty Sheikh when George Washington was a planter's son in Virginia. But the Saud family, long powerful in a land where the family is the center of power, fell on evil days in Abdul Aziz' boyhood...
...debunking job, The Way Our People Lived includes eleven sober chapters crawl ing with facts (most of them curious) about the day-to-day living habits, laws and institutions of nine American genera tions. Typical chapters: A Day in a Vir ginia Planter's Life; A Puritan Village in 1680; New York in 1008. Some odd ments...
...hawk face is not a cruel face. Rather, it expresses a tension bred of Chennault's whole mature life. A Louisiana cotton planter's son, he worked his way through college, taught in a country school. In World War I he enlisted as a private, got a commission at an officers' training camp, transferred from the infantry into aviation. Discharged in April 1920 (he did not go overseas), Chennault returned to his cotton plantation in the Louisiana delta. Several months later he was back in the Army, a first lieutenant in the Air Corps...
Hypnotic Spell. Most of Indigo's 372 pages are given over to the complicated feud of Gisele's mother, the bitter widow of a French indigo planter, and the English colony of Amritpore-a war that reaches into the past (since Gisele's father had been the lover of the sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Englishwoman who dominated the colony), and into the future (since Gisele's brother Jacques is befriended and made over by the English in a ceaseless attempt to win him and his precious talents to their side). The plots and subplots that...