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A Cavalcade of Collier's
574 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1959
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October 1, 2025
Am donating this book to a cottage in Tybee Island, GA, where we stay. Period fits the cottage and the book can be/will be enjoyed by others. And I'll read it there myself.
June 2019: back to Screened Inn in Tybee Island and reading this again. Couldn’t remember what I’d read before, so will just dip in and out.
*Ring Lardner article about experience as war correspondent in 1917
*Wm S. McNutt on American army breakthrough in October 1918
Just read activity report — seems like I read them a couple years ago.
July 2019; finished with vacation so back on “behind the wall” shelf”
June 2020: future visits to this vacation home unlikely; to “start and park” shelf
September 2025 — surprise — opportunity to be at Tybee cottage again, so will resume
Read amusing and insightful profile of the thoroughbred Nashua and his 81-year-old trainer, James E Fitzsimmons, “Mr. Fitz.” A humble man doing what he loves and doing it VERY well is always worth reading about.
Knute Rockne article about “The Four Horseman” backfield at Notre Dame. Not particularly interesting 100 years later . . . just a bunch of anecdotes about various games and plays. But one must give these guys credit: in the three years they played, Notre Dame lost only two games out of 30, both to Nebraska teams that were much heavier. One would never recognize a 1920s player as a football player today. And while most celebrated as running backs, the Four Horsemen (and all players) played both offense and defense.
Alexander Woollcott article about the remarkable world-wide sensation caused by the book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes . . . and it's still worth reading today.
Started reading an article by Douglas Fairbanks on his career but found it tedious.
Short story called "Hash Mark" about a fellow who had washed out of the Army because of illness during WW II and couldn't live with himself but later found redemption in the merchant marine . . . good and not much longer than this description.
"Polish Death Camp" supposedly a 1944 report on Belzec by the Polish underground, doesn't seem like what I know from post-war history . . . but interesting and would have been shocking at the time. Might have been propaganda . . . details could have been wrong but "true" nonetheless.
"Death of a Truck" a very short piece of fiction about German retreat from Moscow in 1942.
"The Men Who Put the Heartbreak in Heartbreak Ridge" -- war correspondent's report of a month-long battle in Korea in 1951.
"Terror at Webb's Landing" -- fiction about a kidnapping. Interesting.
"Five Desperate Hours in Cabin 56" -- Very well-written piece by the excellent journalist/historian Cornelious Ryan tells about a microcosm of the "Andrea Doria" ocean liner collision and sinking in 1956. Deals with the attempt to rescue two women trapped in a cabin at the point of impact.
Started a P.G. Wodehouse story from 1912 that sounded pretty much like all his stories of whatever period, except this one was set in the US, which makes sense as Wodehouse was in the US at the time. Did not finish — just ran out of time. Maybe next trip (if there is a next trip).
June 2019: back to Screened Inn in Tybee Island and reading this again. Couldn’t remember what I’d read before, so will just dip in and out.
*Ring Lardner article about experience as war correspondent in 1917
*Wm S. McNutt on American army breakthrough in October 1918
Just read activity report — seems like I read them a couple years ago.
July 2019; finished with vacation so back on “behind the wall” shelf”
June 2020: future visits to this vacation home unlikely; to “start and park” shelf
September 2025 — surprise — opportunity to be at Tybee cottage again, so will resume
Read amusing and insightful profile of the thoroughbred Nashua and his 81-year-old trainer, James E Fitzsimmons, “Mr. Fitz.” A humble man doing what he loves and doing it VERY well is always worth reading about.
Knute Rockne article about “The Four Horseman” backfield at Notre Dame. Not particularly interesting 100 years later . . . just a bunch of anecdotes about various games and plays. But one must give these guys credit: in the three years they played, Notre Dame lost only two games out of 30, both to Nebraska teams that were much heavier. One would never recognize a 1920s player as a football player today. And while most celebrated as running backs, the Four Horsemen (and all players) played both offense and defense.
Alexander Woollcott article about the remarkable world-wide sensation caused by the book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes . . . and it's still worth reading today.
Started reading an article by Douglas Fairbanks on his career but found it tedious.
Short story called "Hash Mark" about a fellow who had washed out of the Army because of illness during WW II and couldn't live with himself but later found redemption in the merchant marine . . . good and not much longer than this description.
"Polish Death Camp" supposedly a 1944 report on Belzec by the Polish underground, doesn't seem like what I know from post-war history . . . but interesting and would have been shocking at the time. Might have been propaganda . . . details could have been wrong but "true" nonetheless.
"Death of a Truck" a very short piece of fiction about German retreat from Moscow in 1942.
"The Men Who Put the Heartbreak in Heartbreak Ridge" -- war correspondent's report of a month-long battle in Korea in 1951.
"Terror at Webb's Landing" -- fiction about a kidnapping. Interesting.
"Five Desperate Hours in Cabin 56" -- Very well-written piece by the excellent journalist/historian Cornelious Ryan tells about a microcosm of the "Andrea Doria" ocean liner collision and sinking in 1956. Deals with the attempt to rescue two women trapped in a cabin at the point of impact.
Started a P.G. Wodehouse story from 1912 that sounded pretty much like all his stories of whatever period, except this one was set in the US, which makes sense as Wodehouse was in the US at the time. Did not finish — just ran out of time. Maybe next trip (if there is a next trip).
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