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...multi-volume attempt to chronicle fictionally the epic of Western America's development. His first, The Big Sky, was an account of mountain fur trappers in the 1830's. The Way West, which won Guthrie the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, depicted the westward trek of Lije Evans and his wagon train to Oregon...
...specialists with The Big Sky, a knowing, realistic book about the early traders, trappers and scouts that was as unashamedly rich in poetic evocation as it was in gritty plain talk. In 1949 came The Way West, a sober but richly authentic account of the great migration by wagon to the Pacific coast. Guthrie's new book, These Thousand Hills, again justifies the literary claim he has staked out in that vast country, but it also shows that when a novelist sets a Western hero on a horse, he is apt. sooner or later, to follow a trail that...
With Chevrolet already on the road, General Motors this week brought out its higher-priced cars for 1957-the new Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs. Every division had something new, but this time the show stoppers were the station wagons. For the first time in six years, Oldsmobile will make a station wagon, will produce three Fiesta models in six-and eight-passenger styles. Pontiac has its sleek Safari models, prettied up even more than last year. And Buick will bring out a brand-new design, with low, racy lines like a hardtop convertible. Said Buick General Manager Edward...
...left arm. Adin soon lost consciousness, and was driven across the state line to Philhaven, another Mennonite mental hospital in Lebanon, Pa. No outsider might have known anything about it if a passerby had not chanced to see Adin's brethren loading his limp body into the station wagon. Several days later, he got around to telling the district attorney. Authorities established that Adin was missing, and ran him to earth at Philhaven.The hospital agreed to release Adin. Two non-Mennonite doctors examined him and found no reason for his confinement...
...assignments, often working all night, happily going three days without sleep to cover the Baltimore fire of 1904. "You could no more have a 40-hour week for a good newspaper reporter," says Mencken, "than you could for an archbishop." Those were the days "when an oldtime ice-wagon-driver city editor might come down in the morning with a hangover and fire a man simply because he was in bad humor." It was also an era when a pressagent was regarded as "a loathsome creature," suffering "a subtle corruption of the mind...