Word: sandoz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JULES - Mari Sandoz - Little, Brown...
When Mari Sandoz. writing under a pseudonym, won honorable mention in the Harper Intercollegiate Short Story Contest in 1925, her aging, domineering father thundered at her: "You know I consider writers and artists the maggots of society!" But on the last day of his life, when he was demented with pain, disease and alcohol, "Old Jules'' Sandoz broke down and urged her to tell the story of his struggles as a homesteader and community builder, in the desolate Running Water region of western Nebraska. Last week his daughter fulfilled his wish with a biography that won the Atlantic...
Simply and directly written, Old Jules is the story of a tenacious career in a tough country, presents intelligible pioneers who were made coarse by hardship and loneliness. Although she confesses to an abiding fear of "Old Jules" that dated from her girlhood, Mari Sandoz writes of him with sympathy, without sentimentality, with an honest facing of some unpleasant aspects of his character...
...Jules Sandoz was a dark-bearded, ragged young man of 26 when, in 1884, he settled near the upper Niobrara River. He had studied medicine in Zurich, quarreled with his father, left for the U. S. to make his fortune. In Nebraska he married only to leave his wife because she "refused to build the morning fires, to run through the frosty grass to catch up his team." Locating his homestead at a time when cattlemen were driving off settlers with guns, when mail was held up at the nearest post office for as long as six months, Jules fought...
...matches out of 160, has there been an undisputed heavyweight wrestling champion. In the last seven years two main groups of wrestlers have emerged to do business separately, each with its own champion: a group controlled by Promoter Jack Curley in the East, the other by old-time Billy Sandoz in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast. Curley's champion is recognized by the National Boxing Association, whose authority over wrestling is vague. Sandoz' champion is supported mainly in Massachusetts, Michigan and California. To Curley goes credit for having revived wrestling, long discredited by its reputation...