Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dixon Wecter, 44, research director of California's Huntington Library, author of The Saga of American Society, When Johnny Comes Marching Home and other scholarly studies of U.S. history and folkways; of a heart attack; in Sacramento...
Another way was supplied by Nature. The dust bowl of 1934-35 and the great drought of 1936 cut farm surpluses. But a fresh wave of poverty swept families westward from their deadlands to enact the saga of the Okies and tread the Grapes of Wrath...
...Yankee Exodus has some arid stretches, notably the endless lists of early settlers' names that appear in every chapter. But dozens of such rousingly written real life tales as the saga of Seattle's Mercer Girls will be bounty enough for readers who follow the Yankee trails all the way West...
...saga of the statue began last Tuesday, when it was dug up by a bulldozer a Hamilton, New York, after it had disappeared from Syracuse University. Frank Still, who was driving the bulldozer, took the bust to the home of Edgar J. Snitcher, on whose property he was working, and left it on Snitchler's front porch...
Nipped in the Budd. It is through such a novel series, the mammoth (ten volumes) Lanny Budd saga, that Novelist Upton Sinclair is best known to the younger generation. Almost buried under Lanny's insupportable weight has been the early Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle, The Brass Check and Oil! Most admirers of the old Upton Sinclair have long felt sure that he would never manage to shake off limpet Lanny and re-emerge in anything like his old form...