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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1954
Page
21
Marie Blizard praises Elsa Schiaparelli autobiography Shocking Life as an original, vivid, and accessible work. The piece highlights Hammamet chapters and the author's vibrant writing, calling the book a rare, richly satisfying creation by a renowned artist.
Taylor Glenn profiles Hartzell Spence whose two million copies show a writer who works in a locked Essex room with classical music on the radio. Spence dictating or typing, aided by a spouse or typist, shapes a distinctive process. Bride of the Conqueror is highlighted as a brilliant Random House release.
Dona Eloisa Maria Maria del Cristofora Leovigilda Canilejas from Cacares Spain travels to Panama and Peru in the 16th century. Her beauty aids a Dominican friar Pedro de la Gasca as they oppose Gonzalo Pizzaro. Entwined schemes, peril, romance, and a Lysistrata like ending fuel a majestic adventure.
The author researches deeply for historical texture, describing Spanish fashion and social life in Dona Eloisa’s era. He notes two 16th century elegant coaches in the New World, Aubusson carpets in Peru, and a population of 126 Spanish women in Eloisa’s rough frontier setting, details disclosed to readers.
Hartzell Spence, Phi Beta Kappa from Iowa, moved from writing on campus papers to United Press in Des Moines and New York. In 1940 his novel fate began with One Foot in Heaven, leading to script work, a Peru honeymoon, and later World War II service as Yank editor and Air Corps colonel. His family moved to a Virginia farm, then to a Connecticut home near New York, amid artistic life and garden tours.
Phyllis Stock profiles Jo seph Johnston's sweeping account of organized religious resistance inside the Soviet Union. A worldwide investigation traces Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, and Orthodox clergy forming an underground network termed the secret army. The narrative spans three continents, uses pseudonyms for current operatives, and honors those who sacrificed for religious freedom.
Starr Cooper grows up in a drought scarred California town where her mother Cory works to secure a better life on Angello Street. Cory sacrifices $500 down payment to escape poverty as the Cooper family battles slum conditions and Bert’s rural yearnings. Starr, the eldest, chooses study and reading over risky temptations, carving a path beyond the town’s hardship.
Starr loves Jeff Mayfield the geologist who cannot marry due to his alcoholic wife. He aids her escape then she marries Cash, who dies in a car crash as she awaits their child. Dashell Taylor remains the other captivating male in her life. Starr gains a third chance at love.
A catalog of Image Books reprints listing eight titles including A Popular History of the Catholic Church by Philip Hughes and Damien the Leper by John Farrow. The paperbound editions priced 50 to 95 cents feature concise introductions and notes, with varied subjects from church history to modern social encyclicals.
A critical examination of how the Civil War transformed journalism and made reporters central figures. It credits Starr and Weisberger for documenting the era's press revolution, noting reporters gained status, access, and bylines, shaping modern news culture.
The text traces Schiaparelli birth in Rome to a professor father, early experiments with flowers on her face, and a rise to fashion fame. It notes a Paris awakening, a self made first dress, marriage amid suffragette unrest, a vanished husband, hardship in New York Wall Street work, and eventual discovery of her Paris calling through powerful female allies.
The piece profiles the designer Behiap of the Great Dressmaking, tracing her swift rise from handknit sweaters to skirts and scarves at a Paris house. It sketches her wide circle across London, Paris, Rome, and beyond, noting her motherhood, wartime work, and vivid, humane zest for life and beauty as she shares anecdotes from a life spent at the center of fashion and culture.
A compact promotional blurb for Mess and Marvel's CanCan and Barcarolle notes the 278 page New York Exposition Press work recounting Jacques Offen life with German birth and French temperament. The praise highlights gaiety, verve, and a rich tapestry of melody and words.
A vivid imaginative narrative of a Southern mountaineer tale packed with Rabelaisian humor. The 202 page work, set in New York published by Greve Prece, is edited by Brom Weber noted for Hart Crane and teaching literature at the New School.
Dawn Powell portrays a cafe Julien of New York through memories of Cafe Lafayette era artists and patrons. The Time of the novel is 1950 as Powell maps lives of Dalzell Sloane Cynthia Earle Elsie Hockley and Martius with sharp humor and nostalgic mood.
Florence Lovell reviews Gladys Hasty Carrolls latest novel ONE WHITE STAR a 246 page study of Laura Craig at age 39 recalling her life from childhood to widowhood. The reviewer highlights themes of sacrifice, misfortune, failed marriages, and two sustaining relationships with Mrs Bracy and Kate as warmth amid realism.
A review of Rene Lecler's Sahara exploration book detailing early desert expeditions from Timbuktu to the Free French effort. Notes the harsh desert, legendary tales, and the human drive for conquest. praises photography but criticizes missing maps.
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