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That this story of France was written in a house in New England's White Mountains is not surprising. Author Julian Green is one of the strangest Franco-American mixtures in American expatriate literature. His father was a Virginian, his mother came from Savannah, Ga.; he himself was born (1900) and raised in Paris where Father Green went to represent a U.S. oil company. Author Green, now 42 and in the U.S. Army, is an American citizen with twelve books to his credit (best known: The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey...
...Savannah...
Last week the nation's shipyards celebrated National Maritime Day, anniversary of the Savannah's maiden trip in 1819-across the Atlantic with sails and steam-driven paddle wheels. The U.S. launched 27 vessels in Maritime Day's 24 hours. Whether Jerry Land's ships were ducks to be shot at or dodos doomed to extinction after the war by Grover Loening's air fleet, they were the immediate answer...
...first patented typewriter and the first letter written on it; remains of Morse's telegraph and Bell's telephone; the log of the Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic...
...Savannah...