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...HIGH ROAD-Frances Grinstead -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Rove Carruthers would rather dream great deeds than do them. Aged 16 and a man by Ozark standards, he loves Jubilee, hates go-getting, hardworking Abner Holly. But even Jubilee grows impatient with Rove when he neglects his new farm because he has heard the call to preach. The story of how Rove finally wins over Jubilee by driving Abner to the sinners' bench at pistol point is a slight but colorful description of Ozark manners, with humor and charm for the sympathetic reader...
...nighttime missionaries rove the roads picking up waifs. They are afraid to collect children publicly for fear of increasing the abandonment of children on mission doorsteps. Other missionaries report an alarming increase of armed assaults on roads as hunger-mad peasants seek food. Farmers are starting to kill farm animals for meat...
...food with them into the hills where the Japanese could not follow. All through the valley, tiny Japanese garrisons were mired in mud, unable to communicate with one another, and slowly starving. When off duty, simple soldiers would sneak out of their garrison posts in twos and threes and rove the countryside looking for abandoned chickens and eggs-many were caught and killed by the Chinese...
Half the time kidding rah rah stuff, during the other half Rodgers & Hart rove as far from the campus as they please. In Spic & Spanish, dark, Puerto Rican St. Vitus Dancer Diosa Costello does everything but break a leg. In I Didn't Know What Time It Was, charming Marcy Wescott tremulously chalks one up for love. In Give It Back to the Indians, Rodgers & Hart sell short the Manhattan they raised a glass to in the Garrick Gaieties. In I Like to Recognize the Tune* Rodgers & Hart-who hate swing-give "hot" bands an earful...
...Charles Bloch, a country boy from Kentucky who made good as Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, and is chief umpire in the Navy game. Another is one time Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, to whom the cruiser Houston was assigned so that he could rove through the battle area, keeping tabs by radio...