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...travel books, reference books). Its setting is Virginia from 1754 to 1806, easily the most fact-packed era in U. S. history. Miss Page, who once wanted to be a history professor, gets all the facts in-Indian trouble, tax trouble, Patrick Henry's rebel-rousing, the Declaration, Trenton, Saratoga, Lafayette off Rhode Island, the Constitution and how it grew, the rise of the Republicans (later called Democrats), everything from A to the XYZ affair-but so sweetly does she coat her historical pill that it might well be prescribed for students who are sick of textbooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Chance | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Ignorant of American history, Herr Hitler overlooked the Hessian mercenaries whom George Washington routed in the Battle of Trenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: One Thing Or Another | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Since 1934, according to proceedings instituted in Trenton's Chancery Court, Mr. Kenny has spent much time ghosting a two-volume legal tome to sell for $30 under the title of Dougal Herr on Marriage, Divorce and Separation in New Jersey. His pay at first was $40 a week, was later reported at $50 and $60. In addition his author-employer, Advisory Master in Chancery Dougal Herr, gave him a 40% stock interest in a firm called Legal Publications, Inc. of Hoboken, formed to publish and sell the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ghost | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden (Wed. 9 p. m. CBS). Thornton Wilder's fantasy about a family who go for a drive in a car which never moves; produced by the Columbia Workshop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Sued for divorce. John Hope Doeg, 29, kin of the famed tennis-playing Bundys and onetime (1930) national tennis singles champion; by Dorothea Scudder Doeg; in Trenton. N. J. Grounds: cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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