Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University told a similar tale, one which may possibly prove as significant to medical history as Dr. Mellon's. As violent as the streptococcus is the pus-forming Staphylococcus germ, which causes boils, invades hearts, lungs, joints, kidneys, often fatally. To combat the Staphylococcus sulfanilamide and its offspring sulfapyridine were tried, but with few encouraging results...
...Victory-Frank 0. Hough-Carrick & Evans ($2.50). A heroineless, fact-footed tale about a young Quaker farmer who turns Continental scout...
Noticeably skimpy is the recent crop of farm novels. Maine contributes a lone example: Marguerite Mclntire's Free and Clear (Farrar & Rinehart, $2.50), a drowsy tale about hardworking Ma and Pa Chadbourne, their two urban-bent children who turn out all right after...
...Past the End of the Pavement-Charles G. Finney-Holt ($2). A nostalgic tale of smalltown, small-boy Missouri brothers with a passion for odd pets. Author Finney (The Circus of Dr. Lao) describes the animals brightly, designs his laughs for adults...
FROM a narrow, blue sea-chest stuffed with maps, tall log-books, cash-books, account-books, diaries, and musty bills of lading. Robert Coffin has gleaned much of the material for his true tale of the voyages of Captain John Pennell and wife, Abby, of Casco Bay, Maine. From these documents he has constructed a simple New England odyssey of a Down-East family who made their home upon the sea and whose travels in a tall-masted clipper took them to every corner of a world which was much broader in 1840 than it is today...