Lost China dispatches reveal WWII era US China policy
A review of John S. Service and colleagues who warned of a poor China policy during 1942 to 1945. The book collects diplomatic dispatches once buried in archives, detailing vilification by McCarthy era officials and later vindication of their insights. It traces how misperceptions helped steer US policy toward Korea and Vietnam.
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China
John S. Service
Joseph W. Esherick
Random House
America
Asia
John Paton Davies
John Carter Vincent
O. Edmund Clubb
Sen
Joseph McCarthy
State Department
Korea
Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
Yenan
Service
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Britannica's New Three-Section Structure Reexamined
A capsule review outlines Britannica’s three part redesign Propedia the topic based index Micropedia concise under 750 words and Macropedia long scholarly articles. It praises convenience noting quick reference value for questions like the third Pharaoh while recommending Macropedia for deeper theory and esoteric detail.
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Encyclopaedia Britanica
Britannica Society
Britannica
Arts events open across Vermont and New York galleries
The Southern Vermont Art Center opens three exhibits running through late June and October with works from schools and the permanent collection plus Sculptures in the Garden. At the Fleming Museum Burlington new shows feature Fred Picker photographs and landscape paintings through July. Schenectady Museum hosts Scott Mlyn and Jane Kirstal with 1920s to 1990s radio equipment exhibits. Albany Museum opens Aaron Draper Shattuck retrospective June 8 through August 25.
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Manchester
Southern Vermont Art Center
Burlington
Robert Hull Fleming
University of Vermont
Fred Picker
Sain
N.Y
Schenectady Museum
Scott Mlyn
Jane Kirstal
Albany
Albany, N.Y
Albany Museum
Aaron Draper Shattuck
N.A
White Mountain
Beach Boys and Chuck Mangione Added to Saratoga Festival
Saratoga Festival in Saratoga Springs N Y announces two new events. The Beach Boys perform July 16 at 7 p.m. Tickets are 4 and 5 dollars. Chuck Mangione plays Friday June 21 at 8 p.m. Ticket prices range from 3 50 to 9 dollars. Mail orders go to Saratoga Festival in Saratoga Spring NY.
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Saratoga
N.Y
Saratoga Fstival
Beach Boys
Chuck Mangione
Saratoga Festival
Saratoga Spring
City Ballet Holds Auditions for Saratoga Festival
The New York City Ballet will audition ballet students for the annual Saratoga Festival. Auditions are set for Monday June 3 at 4 p.m. in the SPAC theatre main rehearsal hall.
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Saratoga
N.Y
New York City Ballet
Spac Theatre
Mozart in Vermont gains big box office appeal
The Vermont Mozart Festival sold out six of eight initial concerts and added shows as demand grew. The event, co sponsored by the University of Vermont music department and Lane Series with support from the Vermont Council on the Arts NEA and Lane Series, features the New York Chamber Soloists the Fine Arts Quartet and several soloists. Ticketed openings show 250 left for July 21 and 700 for July 28 with 450 newly available for Aug 3 matinee. Concerts include works by Mozart and choral and instrumental pieces performed at AVM Show Barn and St. Pauls Cathedral Burlington.
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Burlington
Vermont
Fine Arts Quartet
The
Festival Winds
University Choral Union
Menahem Pressler
Arthur Weisberg
Jean Hakes
Charles Bressler
Raymond Marcell
Lane
Jack Trevithick
American Dressage Institute
Mozart
New York Chamber Soloists
UVM Choral Union
AVM
la Finta Giardiniera
Bastien
Bastienne
St. Paul's Cathedral
UVM
University of Vermont
Herbie Mann to Substitute for Duke Ellington at Saratoga Festival
Herbie Mann will replace the late Duke Ellington at the Saratoga Festival center on Saturday June 22 at 8 p.m. Tickets for Ellington may be kept or refunded if returned by June 15. Mann leads the Family of Mann with David Newman and shares the bill with Freddie Hubbard and the Joe Farrell Quartet. The event marks Manns second Saratoga appearance and follows his international concert career and cross over as a pop attraction. For information call (518) 587-3330.
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Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Duke Ellington
Herbie Mann
Center
Mann
Family of Mann
David Newman
Bill
Freddie Hubbard
Joe
Saratoga
Church Mangione
Brubeck
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Call
Film books swell the shelves with every release
Vincent Canby surveys a publishing boom in film books covering actors directors genres and eras. He notes titles on stars like William Holden Gene Kelly and Judy Garland as well as critical studies and reference works from publishers such as Oxford UC Press and Dutton, highlighting both enduring references and overlong self myths.
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Vincent Canby
N.Y. Times News Service
New York
Hamelin
Maidstone
William Holden
Gene Kelly
Raoul Walsh
Hildegard Knef
Corinne Griffith
Shakespeare
Judy Garland
Arlington House
al DiOrio Jr
Seabury Press
Paul Sylbert
Sylbert
Steagle
Simon and Schuster
John Wayne
Maurice Zolotow
Wayne
Hawthorn
Edward G. Robinson
Leonard Spigelgass
Robinson
Praeger
University of California Press
Indiana University Press
Hill and Want
Leslie Halliwell
Haigs Dinner Theatre to Open in Bondville
Haigs Dinner Theatre at the foot of Stratton Mountain in Bondville will launch this summer with director Michael Auer casting a first season. Productions under consideration include Butterflies Are Free and You Know I Cant Hear You Whep The Water Running. Auditions have begun with local and out of state students, and final schedule decisions are pending.
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Bondville
Haig Brogossian
Paul Himmelsbach
Haig
Dinner Theatre
Stratton Mountain
Michael Auer
Papp
Boston
New York
Albany
San Diego
Denver
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Henri Castang
Police Judiciaire
Ben Hur
Robert L. Fish
Putnam
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Kek Huuygens
Fish
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Kek
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New England
Momarch
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P.M
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Monument Plaza
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Duke
Vernon Young
Harcourt, Bruce & Jovanovich
Berkley Medallion
Bruce Bahrenburg
Robert Redford
Mia Farrow
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Molly Haskell
Marx Bros
Norton
Groucho Marx
Richard Anobile
Groucho
Oxford University Press
P. Adams Sitney
Georges Sadoul
Dutton
Andrew Sarris
Haig’s
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Triple
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