A God in a Golden Age Spencer Tracy Biography Review
Larry Swindell’s World profile details Spencer Tracy as a jealous driven star of Hollywood’s peak era. The book covers his Milwaukee childhood, 1926 Broadway debut, marriage to Louise Treadwell, deaf son John, and famed romances with Loretta Young and Katharine Hepburn. The biography portrays Tracy’s private life and public artistry amid classic 1930s and 1940s cinema.
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Pencer
Tracy
Larry Swindell
Spencer Tracy
Gable
Gary Cooper
Humphrey Bogart
Hollywood
Milwaukee
New York
George M. Cohan
Cohan
Louise Treadwell
John
Loretta Young
Katharine Hepburn
And Try Not to Miss WHEN CLOUDS GATHER
Book reviews note Bessie Head's first novel about Botswana society with a British expert plan clashing with old ways and a Black idealist lifting villagers toward change. Also covered are a satirical film script collaboration and Elizabeth Wiskemann's Europe biographical volume with Gestapo arrest context.
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Bessie Head
Simon and Schuster
South Africa
Botswana
Golema Mwindi
A Trip South The Man Says Yes
A novel by Dan McCall about Beaunorus Green a young Negro teacher and his white wife Ruth who go south to teach at a Negro agricultural and normal university. The story centers on Archie Washington the powerful college president and Henry Prudhomme who seeks to topple him amid personal flaws and cancer.
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Beaunorus Green
Ruth
Negro Agricultural and Normal University
New York
Beaunorus
Archie Washington
Henry Prudhomme
Green
Barbara Fryer
Fine Hot Job FIREFIGHTING
A historical overview traces firefighting from ox-entrail hoses to today’s high tech units. It highlights 8000 gallon per minute water delivery, helicopter rescue, skin divers, snorkels, TV, hydraulic platforms and chemistry of fuels and new agents. Training of modern firemen is given full treatment.
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Paul C. Ditzel
van Nostrand Reinhold
The Crazy Ladies by Joyce Elbert
Four New York women in their twenties seek life milestones but fear turning thirty. Simone 24 model Beverly 29 unhappily married Anita 25 stewardess Lou 27 reporter meet bachelor psychologist Robert Fingerhood who agrees to help them but plans to remain single. A sexy, humorous tale of love and desire in a tough town.
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Joyce Elbert
New American Library
New York
Simone
Beverly
Anita
Lou
Rober Fingerhood
Robert
Joyce Elber
Jim Redpath
Past's Shadow the Junkers
A British diplomat in postwar Berlin falls for a cafe girl and probes her Nazi linked family. He traces their history from the 16th century to the 20th century as he uncovers both the legacy of the past and the family's political stance in the 1960s.
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the Junkers
Piers Paul Read
Knopf
Berlin
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EK AS
Sturco
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Market ST. Long Beach
United States
Terry Southern
Arthur Kopit
Herbert Gold
Jack Richardson
Bruce Jay Friedman
Allen Ginsberg
Bob Booker
George Foster
Arnold Weinstein
Robert Paul Smith
Philip Roth
Gregory Corso
Europe
Elizabeth Wiskemann
St. Martin's
Weimar Republic
Dan McCall
Viking
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