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Canberra Times

Location

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Date

Jan 14, 1961

Page

5

Trumpets From The Lady Diana Memoirs Reveal A Chatterbox

The memoirs portray Lady Diana Duff Cooper as a charming and lovable figure. She travels with Winston Churchill and Dull, visits Paris, Singapore, Australia and Hollywood, and recounts wartime missions, awkward social moments, and letters from a devoted Catholic benefactor. Her Englishness, wit, and resilience emerge amid glamorous, risky assignments and intimate reflections.

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Literary prizes offered at Adelaide Festival 1962

The Advertiser announces a 2100 pound prize fund for a book short story and poem during the second Festival of Arts in March 1962. Awards include 1250, 400, 100 for books. 100, 40, and three x 10 for short stories. 50, 20, and 10 for poetry. Entries close in December. Results follow the festival opening.

Adelaide Mareh The Advertiser Aisetta

The Bachelors by Muriel Spark a London portrait

A fragmented review of Muriel Spark's The Bachelors portrays London as a city of bachelors led by Ronald Bridges, an epileptic assistant curator. The piece highlights Spark's sharp social satire, exposing spiritualists, healthcare quirks, and consumer quirks through vivid, if imperfect, prose.

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This Side of Jordan by Margret Laurence reviewed

A mixed review of Margaret Laurence's This Side Jordan. The novel explores native upheaval as colonial powers retreat toward independence, centering Nathaniel Amegbe and a cast including Miranda Kestoe. While ambitious in theme and setting near the Gold Coast becoming Ghana, the work is found partly underdeveloped with clumsy language and overextended plotting, yet still worthwhile for its wind of change empathy.

Mise Margaret la Jordan Will Tey Africa The Laurence Lawrence Sels Miranda Kestoe Miss Laurence Sone Miranda Kestas Margret Laurence Macmillan

Were These Really the Good Years

A review questions Walter Lord’s The Good Years 1900 1914 claiming the era’s events were exciting yet critiques the title. The piece notes Roosevelt’s square deal, labor, war looming, and debates whether the era truly was good despite vivid events and strong personalities.

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Pocket Guides for Birds and Seasides Grow Popular

Guide to Bush Stream and Shore Guide to Bush Stream from WM Kane introduces the latest three in the series Mush Birds by Allen Keast Phi Sheds of the Avwtealian Seashore by D McMichael PhD and Breshwailer Bisher by Gilbert Whitey FRIS. The pocket sized volumes measure 53 by 34 inches, are well produced and indexed, and serve as practical as well as valuable travel companions.

WM Kane Allen Keast Phi Avwtealian D. McMichael Breshwailer Bisher Gilbert Whitey FRIS

TIMES CROSSWORD S Across Abbreviated and Fragmented Clues

A compact note lists crossword clues with extensive garbled letters and misprints across numbers 1 to 32. The readable items hint at definitions like undress perils tapestries and bodily textures, but many entries are severely corrupted.

Books May This House Be Late From Tigers

A fragmented book list chronicles upcoming titles and authors. Entries include Alexander Kine’s reminiscences Mine Enemy Grows Older and Henry Morton Robinsons Water of Life, plus Mark Twain Autobiography and Pasternak poetry.

Alexander Kine Henry Morton Robinson Tellus

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