Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STRAWSTACK-Dorothy Cameron Disney-Random House ($2). A conservative Vermont spinster buys a swank Maryland farm, regrets it when she finds herself involved in three horrible murders. Cleverly-constructed story in the Mary Roberts Rinehart tradition...
Waterville Valley has 63 to 75 inches of new snow covering the surface. With the skiing good and the temperature 28 degrees, Pinkham Notch reports 65 inches with powder. North Woodstock, Vermont, also reports deep powder over a breakable crust...
Dorothy Canfield lives in and writes about Vermont, a sensible State where a lady's hat, to be up to the moment, needs only to be a decent shelter for the head. One might expect Author Canfield, therefore, to be impervious to literary fashion as well. But so many tucks, ribbons and feathers have been incorporated into the novel since she last wrote one (Bonfire, 1933), that she has felt it necessary to come up to date. The result sits on her head at a rakish angle, tapers to a giddy point. The angle: fascism is dangerous. The point...
Some years ago, Dorothy Canfield, in her nonliterary self (Mrs. John Redwood Fisher), served on Vermont's State Board of Education, found that small village schools were so hard up for chalk, books, blackboards, maps, to say nothing of gymnasiums and decently paid teachers, that they would gladly pawn even their academic freedom for a little ready cash. This, at any rate, is the premise of Seasoned Timber...
With many favorite ski trails covered with breakable crust, winter sport fans will find that Stowe, Vermont; Franconia Notch, New Hampshire; and Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire have the best snow conditions for skiing this weekend...