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...aren't particularly interested in Mr. Orton's [book], but we ARE interested in your anonymous book critic's wonderful and incomplete saga of Angela and Carrie Chapman Katz. . . . We long to know more about Angela and her daughter . . . their lives previous to the universal demolition, a chronicle we hope will be salted with plenty of the gifted ladies' ideas and conversation. It isn't fair to give us just this tasty hors d'oeuvre. More! More...
Weevils & Bulls. The Lomaxes followed The Boll Weevil Song ("Boll Weevil done et my cotton, done started in on my corn") from Texas to the Atlantic, recording a different version of the little bug at each stop. They went to Tennessee for the sad saga of Coal Creek mine disasters ("No more pay days at Coal Creek...
...saga of the Hump was ending. This week, after three years of peril-strewn operation over the Himalayas into China, the most hazardous air route in the world practically went out of business...
Does any ex-Dunsterman ever miss an occasion to draw unfavorable analogies between the apocryphal "then" and the ubiquitous "now"? In the Harvard of today a questionably humorous saga of good old K-Entry is almost as familiar and certainly not less annoying than the Massachusetts Avenue trolley line or the bolls of St. Paul...
...everlasting Hardy family, One Man's Family (the Barbours) is an imaginary upper-middle-class family full of common traits, to which all kinds of uncommon things happen. Morse says he got the idea for One Man's Family from reading Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga. Family is as prettied-up a picture of American life as the neat colonial homes in the ads. A Pocatello, Idaho judge has described the program as "the pillar of the American way of life." It has been a pillar to Carlton Morse too, bringing him more than 20 radio awards...