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Awake at me Switch. Fast-rising Arthur Larson was born a Republican in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. At Oxford University he took first-class honors, won a rowing oar that still accompanies him from job to job. He taught law at Tennessee and Cornell, during World War II served with the Foreign Economic Administration. In Washington after V-E day, he watched returning General Dwight D. Eisenhower ride up Pennsylvania Avenue in a victory parade. Larson flipped on his car radio to hear the general address Congress, remembers that "it went right through me. I was an Eisenhower man from...
Safari (Warwick; Columbia) had the interesting idea of shooting 30,000 feet of film in Kenya and then hiring a writer to think up a plot. What results is an African western with ferocious Mau Mau taking the place of rampaging Sioux and a biff-bang ending that has Victor Mature standing knee-deep in corpses just as the soldiers come charging to the rescue. Along the way are the usual scenes of trumpeting elephants, petulant rhinos, man-eating lions and fiendish crocodiles with an eye for a pretty girl-in this instance, Janet Leigh. In fact, most...
Pennsylvania: Felix Albert of Dunster and Carlisle; David H. Alpers of Kirkland and Merion; William W. Bartley, 3rd of Eliot and Pittsburgh; and William D. Fordyce of Leverett and Conshohocken; Rhode Island: John C. Brown of Eliot House and Providence; South Dakota: George M. Fredrickson of Lowell and Sioux Falls; Utah: Gary B. Christiansen of Winthrop and Salt Lake City; Virginia: Rollin B. Norris of Eliot and Arlington; Wisconsin: Stefan S. Anderson of Lowell and Madison and Albert Marden of Winthrop and Milwaukee, and Olaf H. Prufer of Delhi, India.CHIANG...
Badman Taylor tunes up for the buffalo by knocking off Indians. After wiping out a nest of Sioux, he stumbles upon toothsome Debra Paget and a papoose in the underbrush, and drags her back to camp to act as his cook. At this cavalier treatment, Debra smolders and Granger burns, but all Taylor does is sneer and menacingly crook his itchy trigger finger. However, the showdown must be deferred, since...
...tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half-breeds and Sioux . . . cut up into prairie lots by the boomers of kiting towns, now a farmers' market . . . but it was a world." To this world Cam brings not the ex-G.I. gripes of his bindlestiff buddies but pioneering grit...