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...GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. His plot has enough vigor and ingenuity to sustain a three-year television serial, but Novelist Ogburn's most memorable achievement is his depiction of the Amazon, an evocation in the tradition of Twain's Mississippi...
...when he received the Mark Twain Gold Medal, Sir Winston Churchill wrote me: "It will serve to keep fresh my memory of a great American, who showed me much kindness when I visited New York as a young man by taking the chair at my first public lecture and by autographing copies of his works, which still form a valued part of my library...
...Mark Twain...
With his 1958 bestseller, The Travels of Jamie McPheeters, Author Taylor staked out a modest claim on the edge of the Mark Twain country. Young Sam, if not an authentic Tom Sawyer, is a reasonably good facsimile, and he can also take as much physical punishment as James Bond. For this new novel, Taylor has carefully mined the journals, diaries, .newspapers and histories of middle 19th century America...
...would have taken a Will Rogers-Mark Twain partnership to turn the Democrats' smoothly controlled convention into compelling TV fare. But even if the intellectual or emotional content had been higher, the networks' tactics of rushing reporters hither and yon would have confused the viewer. The trouble, argues Cronkite, lies with the networks' "efforts to stay competitive at the cost of telling a cohesive story." Said he: "In many cases it's difficult to understand what's going on, because the entertainment and pictorial aspects of the story keep getting...