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LISTEN FOR A LONESOME DRUM-by Carl Carmer-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Stars Fell on Alabama, Carl Carmer wrote an engaging, popular book about a State that is rich in local color. Now Author Carmer has tried hard to distill the native glamor from a region where the conventional trappings of romance are not nearly so conspicuous as they are in the South. His new field is upper New York State, superficially a prosaic region of farms, sprawling industrial cities, narrow towns...
...jest wanta say a word to thank that there northern feller Carmer for the fine book he has wrote about us pore ignorant people down here in Alabama [TIME, July 2]. They shore do discover things about us and we do like for the rest of the world to know how we live down here...
Guess mr. Carmers next book will be entitled Sudden Departure or why I left Alabama so quickly, I won't say anymore becus I no Mr. carmer will want to reveal all in his next book, that oughta...
...away plantation. When Jim learned that he would have to travel 500 miles each way, that there were 200 girls on the other plantation, he said: "Well, boss, I'll go. But it seems a mighty fur piece for just a few days' work." Carmer calls Mobile "loveliest ... gayest of American cities," thinks its charm has been less commercialized than New Orleans'. He says not a word about its legendary high-flying eagles...