Bennington Library Adds Notable New Acquisitions
Bennington Free Library announces new acquisitions featuring David Boroff Harvard Swarthmore Smith Sarah Lawrence Michigan titles on campus life and yearbooks. Van Wyck Brooks Donald Hall Joseph Lash Marya Mannes Mark Schorer Eleanor Roosevelt Theodora Ward and more with photographs by Herb Snitzer. Children's Story Hour and monthly film program noted.
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Bennington Free Library
David Boroff
U.S.A
Harvard
Swarthmore
Smith
Sarah Lawrence
Michigan
Boroff
van Wyck Brooks
Texas
Donald Hall
Hall
New England
New Hampshire
Joseph P. Lash
Dag Hammarskjold
Lash
U.N
New York Post
Marya Mannes
New York
Miss Mannes
Herb Snitzer
Mark Schorer
Sinclair Lewis
Schorer
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodora Ward Ward
Yuletide at Yale Nursing Home Honors Patients
Warner Nursing Home proprietors Mrs. Marion Powers and Mrs. Catherine Bishop hosted their annual Christmas party. About 30 elderly patients attended, enjoyed decorated tree, fruit cake, candy, and wine, with St. Francis de Sales choir providing two hours of music. Santa visited as patients were assisted back to their rooms.
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Warner Nursing Home
Marion (Warner) Powers
Catherine (Warner) Bishop
St. Francis de Sales
Santa
Teenagers Vote Jingle Bell Rock To Top Spot
Teenagers vote Jingle Bell Rock into number one in Bennington Top Ten Tunes. Polls run Saturdays from 9 30 to 11 p m with votes reported during those hours. Standings show Jingle Bell Rock first, The Lion Sleeps Tonight second, Town Without Pity third, Run to Him fourth, and other hits following.
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Beree
Pastor Ey. Oi
Chubby Checker
Paul Hurlburt
Bendi
Bobby Rydell
Local pianist Stephen Manes earns praise in two Union College concerts
Bennington pianist Stephen Manes 21 and Juilliard graduate impressed Schenectady Gazette music editor D E Ritz with a demanding program at Union College Memorial Chapel. Ritz commended Manes for mature artistry and exceptional technique in works by Mozart Beethoven Brahms Chopin Schubert and Bartok. He noted the Chopin Etude encore and lauded Manes for restoring faith in music and young talent.
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Bennington
Stephen Manes
J. H. Manes
Union St
Union College
Schenectady
N.Y
Juilliard
Mozart
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Schubert
Bartok
Manes
Kosciuszko Foundation
Try Trances To Test Worth Of New Poets
Oxford professor Robert Graves argues true poetic trances create memorable images strong rhythms and peculiar syntax that transcend rhetoric while false trances imitate these elements to deceive. He says a poet can judge a new verse within two minutes by a tactile prick of the fingers as a test of genuine muse.
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Oxford
England
Robert Graves
Oxford University
Pickwick Book Store Defies Hollywood Critics With Busy Holiday Trade
Lou Epstein runs the Pickwick on Hollywood Boulevard as the busiest Hollywood shop this Christmas season. The three floor store offers only books and has drawn stars like Charles Laughton Jane Fonda and the Chaplin family. Epstein believes Southern California is a top book market, second only to New York, and studies paperback sales as a growth driver.
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Hollywood
Pickwick Book Store
Pickwick
Lou Epstein
Epstein
Southern California
America
New York
Boston
Chicago
The
Hollywood Boulevard
Grauman’s Chinese
Charlie Chaplin
Charles Laughton
Jane Fonda
Virginia Holden
Chaplin Boys
Male Advantage Fails with Cards in Indoor Golf Game
Chicago developer David Bremson says women are better players in a card based indoor golf game. The game assigns clubs from a deck to decide play and removes the male strength advantage.
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Chicago
David Bremson
Bremson
Personal Loan Ad Promises Christmas Money Help
An advertisement urges readers to see the bank for a personal loan to cover Christmas expenses, highlighting quick access to funds and bank rates.
Bus for Blind Operating Again
A small eight seat bus runs a 68 mile daily round trip for blind students between Nitro and Glenwood School. After costly repairs and expenses, a dealer overhauled the bus, a rental firm lent a wagon, and a bake sale plus donations restored funds. The bus now operates to transport eight blind youngsters to special classes at Glenwood School.
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Charleston
W. Va
Renta-Car
Nitro
Glenwood School
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Bennington Library Notes
Myrtis Clapp
GAN
West Mountain Farm
West Arlington
Flames Inn
Yale
Gene Pitney
Bobby Vee
Connie Francis
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
Bob Thomas
Vermont National and Savings Bank
Main Street
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Arte Blanche
Ron Her
Jo Xod
Coats
Holiday
Sueal Bned Wow Silduq E'Sitidegmah
Main ST. Bennington
Ita
Dad
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