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Calvin Cobb, radio woodworker!

a novel with measured drawings

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An edition of Calvin Cobb, radio woodworker! (2014)

Calvin Cobb, radio woodworker!

a novel with measured drawings

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"Roy Underhill of PBS's 'The Woodwright's Shop' has written what could be the world's first-ever woodworking novel: 'Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker!' It's a screwball comedy set in 1937 about a woodworker who heads the U.S. government's agricultural 'Broadcast Research' division. Along with his staff of four women (all severely injured WWI volunteers), Calvin studies 'broadcast seed, nutrient and amendment distribution technology and practice' -- that is, what happens when the poop actually hits the fan. But the four women are more interested in developing the world's first supercomputer (using abandoned punch-card machines), and Calvin is more interested in woodworking ... and in one particular woman: Kathryn Dale Harper, host of the radio program 'Homemaker Chats.' How best to woo her? Why, a radio show: 'Grandpa Sam's Woodshop of the Air!' It's an almost-overnight sensation (for measured drawings, write to 'Grandpa Sam's' and be sure to include a 3 cent stamp to cover the cost of duplication). But -- as Calvin discovers -- success breeds jealousy ... a dangerous thing when one's enemy has friends in high places. Can Calvin and his friends save the world through woodworking, one listener at a time? Perhaps -- but first, they'll have to save themselves from Nazis, the clutches of the FBI, bureaucracy and wooden legs that break at inopportune times"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher
Lost Art Press
Language
English
Pages
357

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Calvin Cobb, radio woodworker!: a novel with measured drawings
2014, Lost Art Press
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Edition Notes

Published in
Fort Mitchell, Kentucky

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3621.N344 C35 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 357 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
357

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL39208836M
Internet Archive
calvincobbradiow0000unde
ISBN 10
0990623025
ISBN 13
9780990623021
LCCN
2016299666
OCLC/WorldCat
894352829

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