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Road & Track Ferrari V-12 Portfolio 1992-2002
Published in Paperback by Brooklands Book Ltd (2003)
Authors: R. M. Clarke and Cartech
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Heartwarming "book with a view"
This heartwarming "book with a view" tells of another time in the USA through the eyes of Willie Snow Ethridge (1900-1982), the wife of prominent newspaper editor, Mark F. Ethridge.

According to Polly Powers Stramm for the Savannah Morning News (April 20, 2000), Willie Snow Ethridge "seemed to be the Erma Bombeck of her day. She wrote books with humorous titles...

From 1942-1962, Mark Ethridge served as Publisher & Editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal. In 1963 the news department he led won a Pulitzer.

Mark Ethridge also served as the U.S. delegate, U.N. Commission of Investigation to Study the Greek Border Disputes, 1947; as the U.S. Representative, U.N. Conciliation Commission for Palestine, 1949; and as Chairman, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information, 1948-50.

As Dear Abby noted upon hearing of his death in 1981, Mark Ethridge was one of the first journalists to speak out boldly against racism in the deep South. In a full page article, The New York Times toasted his career and the legacy he created as a journalist and diplomat.

This book, which I read several times some years ago is witty and full of incisive (and sometimes very funny) observations. Imagine a lighter prosed Jane Austen writing in the State of Georgia in the 1940s and 1950s.

Willie Snow Ethridge (1900-1983, born in Georgia, lived in N.C. and Kentucky), the author of this book and Mark Ethridge's wife, authored fifteen books, including several popular novels, primarily in the 1940s and 1950s.

Mark F. Ethridge (1996-1981), was my paternal great-uncle.

A Warm Impassioned Portrait of a Great Man
Although the premise seems flimsy (A woman writing a biography of her husband) it is so well written that after the first page, I had completely abandoned all of my skepticism. Even more impressive is Mark Ethridge's life. He deserves, more than most people, to have a biography written about him. He is fortunate to be married to such a supremely talented writer.


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