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02427aam a2200289 i 4500 001 11001F86297D11E7A3F22DCFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170425010430 007 n 008 141104s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0990623025 020 $a 9780990623021 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Underhill, Roy,. 245 10 $a Calvin Cobb, radio woodworker! : $b a novel with measured drawings / $c Roy Underhill. 264 1 $a Fort Mitchell, Kentucky : $b Lost Art Press, $c 2014. 300 $a vii, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps, plans ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "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. 541 $d 20170221. 600 10 $a Cobb, Calvin $c (Fictitious character) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Woodworkers $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Radio programs $v Fiction. 650 07 $a Civil service $z United States. 651 0 $a Washington (D.C) $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20170425011101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=11001F86297D11E7A3F22DCFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search