Winners

On the cover of Suvd The Will to Win (Morris Publishing) an ardent biography of a legendary Dartmouth football hero by son David Holman Oberlatider'55, appear die words "Dartmouth 62; Gofnell 13 ."That was the final score on the day in 1925 that "Swede" Oberlander '26 threw six touchdown passes. In these days of lower-octane football.it is inspiring to tead of the Dartmouth great who quarterbacked the Green to its only national championship and then turned down the chance to go pro: renounced coaching for medicine; wound up in the record books and in the memory of every sports writer and alumnus who knew him of saw him perform.

"Author Dan Doan '36, a New jerseyan, was more than normally attracted to the outdoor wonders of New Hampshire while he was at Dartmouth. Research absorbed him at the headwaters of the Connecticut, the boundaries of which region. after the Revolution, were overlooked by the Treaty of Paris. In Indian Stream Republic Settling a New England Frontier, 1785-1842, with introduction and after word by jere R. Daniell '55 (University Press of New England), we find that land speculators on this northern frontier had "deeds" and sold land to the traders, trappers, farmers and mill owners who populate this book along with Doan's descriptions of life and natural beauties and bitternesses of the north country.

Was World War IT the nightmare to Jews under Mussolini that it was under Hitler? Not immediately, according to The Neppi Modona Diaries—Reading Jewish,Survival Through My, Italian Family (University Press of New England), Author Kate Cohen '92's distant cousin, professor Aldo Neppi Modona, was a loyal member of the Fascist party, as were many; patriotic Italians; it was not until the Nazi SS began to pour into hapless Italy to del fend it that Jewish families began to disappear, not to be heard from again. Cohen interweaves passages from the professor's meticulously kept diary, the writings of his highly sensitive, terrified son, and the vivid memories of his wife and daughter.