June reading The Good Shepherd & other books spotted on LITB

[Torgo]

I forget which episode, my brain, but it's in a season 2 episode. June is seen reading the novel The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester. It's a war story set at sea. Some how I don't see June reading this type of book. Though maybe Ward read it and recommended it to her.

[Scrabjan1]

Interesting. I only saw her reading magazines and newspapers. Ward read a lot like Abe Lincoln. He mentions John Cheever and Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. June didn't appreciate Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.

[stevea]

Yes. I thought of the time she offered to help Wally with his math, and he said something like, No thanks, you're busy reading your paper.

I don't remember the scene from season 2 at all--I don't remember her reading any book, even a cookbook.

[Torgo]

Found it and took some screenshots. It's from Wally's Pug Nose. June is reading while Ward helps the Beaver with his spelling.

I know June mentioned books she loved as a kid, one she said in The Garage Painters was Lorna Doone.

[stevea]

Wow! Never noticed this!

[Scrabjan1]

I think I missed that scene. Sometimes they edit out the opening scene. In Beaver and Ivanhoe June says she never read that but mentions Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall.

[Scrabjan1]

Hey Torgo can you take a screenshot of Wally's Test. When Wally is in the study with Beaver you can see some of the titles of Ward's books. Maybe we can see them.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by Scrabjan1

Hey Torgo can you take a screenshot of Wally's Test. When Wally is in the study with Beaver you can see some of the titles of Ward's books. Maybe we can see them.

I will try. I was actually thinking about that, there's a scene, it might be in the episode where they're all in the living room and June is dancing with Wally, we see books in the white cabinet (where the pipe was kept). I'll see if I can find that too.

[Scrabjan1]

I think you're right in the scene where they're dancing. I made out one book but forget the title. Is that Wally's Suit?

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by Scrabjan1

I think you're right in the scene where they're dancing. I made out one book but forget the title. Is that Wally's Suit?

That's the one!

[Torgo]

From Wally's New Suit:

One book is The Basle Express by Manning Coles. And also from Googling, I found out that Manning Coles is the pseudonym of two British authors- Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles.
The Basle Express is one of 26 spy thrillers featuring the character Thomas Hambledon who works for MI5 (counter intelligence)

The others are Male Vs Female, and Heroes Of The Pacific., I couldn't make out the author's name.

[Torgo]

From Wally's Test:

I tried to sharpen the image, and make bigger, but still couldn't make out some of the titles.

The Other Side Of The Coin is one, there's a few books with this title, but all of the ones I found were published years after LITB went off the air.

Safe to assume the one under Wally's left ear is The Last Of The Mohicans?

The big white book to the left of Wally is A Treasury Of Biography by Edgar Johnson (published 1941) This link shows what biographies it contains:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/treasu...hy/oclc/177474

[Scrabjan1]

Wow who's better than you?? I remember that book Male Vs. Female. You did a great job showing the books. Is one of them An American Tragedy? One starts The Sensual something.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by Scrabjan1

Wow who's better than you?? I remember that book Male Vs. Female. You did a great job showing the books. Is one of them An American Tragedy? One starts The Sensual something.

Thanks!

That might just be An American Tragedy. I looked and couldn't find pic of the book spine. But that does sound like a book they would have on the shelf for Ward's collection.

Hm. Not The Sensual Woman since that was published in 1969, plus I don't thing June would allow a title like that in her house.

The one book on the same shelf as The Other Side Of The Coin looks like Fighting Rebel, though I couldn't find anything with Google. Granted some of these could be made up books.

[Scrabjan1]

This is an amazing thread. Who would have thought that 57 years later we could scrutinize the books in Ward's library.