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This is Lockridge's first effort, and his six years of labor have produced a gigantic and complicated penetration into The American Myth, enmeshed in a tome which numbers 1066 pages and three explanatory charts that piece out a momentous Fourth of July in an Indiana small town...
Most ominous element on the periodical waste paper counter was the tome of the B. J. Field titled "The Prospects of American Capitalism" which appeared to be worth only a nickel, with no takers at closing time...
Photographers, informal or otherwise, are as honey to the eyes of Alfred M. Weisberg '47, photographic big-wig of the 1947-48 Album. According to Weisberg, he is at present carrying alone the pictorial burden of the massive tome...
Such are the implications of Morison's new book, "The Battle of the Atlantic," volume one of a 13-tome history of the U.S. Navy's role in World War II. This pre-declaration-of-war phase was the battle of the convoy versus the undersea wolf, and Morison tells how close the wolves came to starving out their English prey...
...copies in this country, conservative estimates of its value hover around $150,000. The second most valuable tome, also in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room, apparently does not rate the same consideration...