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Show Books You May Like To Read .ThiTpano Brith's u ml Granny Ilito' 1 By Neill C. Wilson Granny Hite with her wise nnd wrinkled-apple face, is the perfect embodiment of a kind of earthy, unaffected American pioneer spirit. spir-it. She is a tonic. Around her central figure, Neill Wilson has grouped a wonderful array of hill people. There is Ellie Beckett, the wood-carving girl; Tom Swisher, maker of dulcimers and whisky, Jay Gatlin, the bashful bash-ful preacher who performed his own marriage ceremony; and so n,any more. As the story opens, romance has swept through The Hollow. New cabins and houses are going up fast and so many women get together to-gether for a quilting bee to provide for the new beds. As they sew, they talk. And through their talk the reader is led naturally into this fresh, cool mountain world. ary by breeding worms for fish-; ermen. When the visiting supervisor saw red as a direct result of spill- ed nail polish, Bruce was shunted from her first post in staid Belden Springs to the dead end for all teachers, a one-telephone half-Ca-jun comunity called Bayou Noir. This outpost produced a ghost, an epidemic and finally a flood, but with the deluge and the aid of a lazy fat old snake named Lucifer, belonging to Madam Po-Po, the fortuneteller, Bruce learned a few extra lessons about life and land ed an Adam in this improbable Eden. v If you really want to know some unforgettable characters, the Nine Brides and Granny Hite is ; your book. "Generals in the White-house" By Dorothy B. Goebel and Julius Goebel, Jr. Do military and political careers mix? Do soldiers make outstanding outstand-ing statesmen? These are quest-tions quest-tions which have particular signify tension and action has been scattered scat-tered throughout the book working work-ing up to a climax and love tangle. , "Lady Teacher" By Mary Frances Morgan Because she put off her swimming swim-ming test until the last possible moment, Bruce Sheehan was graduated grad-uated from Louisiana State in a Bikini bathing suit. And this was an intirely fitting commencement for her chosen career in the hazardous haz-ardous profession of teaching school. Bruce has decided on a life of service to the youth of the nation through the influence of her Aunt Suzie but that venerable lady was truly of the old school convinced that teaching was not only a dignified dig-nified profession but also paid a living wage. As it turned out, her niece was prey for a wolfish principal, prin-cipal, carniverous colleagues, un-studious un-studious scholars (one of whom was a two-year Army veteran) and problem parents. She also was forced to augment her meager sal- icance as each presidential election elec-tion approaches. Following their successes on the battlefield, Washington, Wash-ington, Grant and seven other generals gen-erals have been swept into the White House in the course of American Am-erican history. . Such can happen again. In this unusual book, Mr. and Mrs. Goebel carefully examine the march of the presidency of the nine American military leaders who achieved that goal: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zacbary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield and Benjamin HarWson. They show in fascinating fascinat-ing detail how the state of the nation, the man in question, and the political machinations have combined time and time again to overcome the long-standing prejudice pre-judice of the American voter against a military figure. : "Trial by Terror" By Paul Gallicp Three sets of characters in the Europe ' of 1950 act out this hair-raising hair-raising story. First of all there are the Americans, all members of the staff of an English-language Paris newspaper from the veteran-graduate veteran-graduate of the city desk to the brash and idealistic green reporter. Then there are the Europeans a cross section of poor but proud ex-gentry, a former French Resistance Resis-tance underground worker, rascals, ras-cals, Dior fashion models. Finally there are the Russians with their scientifically calculated horrors to reduce men to animals. Plenty of j |