1940-1
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh C4 - Children’s; War; Immigrant CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - Based on a widely published 1940 newspaper account, which, in recent years, some researchers have claimed to be fictitious. N2 - A group of Norwegian children on sleds risked their lives to sneak $9 million of the town’s gold bullion past Nazi sentries to partisans, who eventually shipped the gold to Baltimore for safe keeping. A subplot involves Pittsburgh as sanctuary: one Nazi soldier captured by the partisans is actually a Pole, Jan Lasek of Krakow, who had been on his way to study at the University of Pittsburgh before being conscripted into the German army. PB - E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. PP - New York PY - 1942 RN - Marie McSwigan (1896-1962), born and raised in Pittsburgh, was a publicist, newspaper journalist, biographer, and novelist. After graduation from the University of Pittsburgh in 1919, she wrote for the Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Sun-Telegram. She later was publicist for Kennywood Park and the Carnegie Institute Department of Fine Arts before in 1941 becoming Director of News Services and Director of Publications for the University of Pittsburgh. In 1947 she became a full-time writer. Her first book was a 1938 biography called Sky Hooks of John Kane, the primitive painter. McSwigan died of leukemia in 1962 and is buried in Pittsburgh's Calvary Cemetery. EP - 178 p. TI - Snow Treasure ER -