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LENA-Roger Vercel-Random House...
SALVAGE -Roger Vercel - Harper...
Emerging bravely from that shadow is the latest novel by Professor Vercel, whose Captain Conan in 1934 received the Prix Goncourt. Written in lean, brilliant prose, Salvage rises to a sustained pitch of excitement in telling of the rescue of a Greek cargo steamer by the salvage tug Cyclone, fades again when the rescue is completed midway in the book...
...SIGHT OF EDEN-Roger Vercel- Harconrt, Brace ($2.50). First-rate yarn about Breton cod-fishermen off the Greenland coast. A French prize novel that for once was well worth translating; with little pictures by Rockwell Kent...