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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 25, 1960
Page
5
A rugged literary review of Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy portrays the narrator’s awakening inside a Borstal system. The text emphasizes the tension between despair and dignity, with Behan’s memoir framed as a realist account of youth, punishment, and resilience under harsh social structures.
A travel history tracing the Great South Road from Sydney to Canberra blends legends and local lore. Clune’s anecdotes cover landmarks, coastal detours, and notable figures, with sharp humor and strong sense of place.
Fragmented OCR style clues mixed with stray letters and numbers. The item lists multiple cryptic style entries with lengths, puzzled fragments, and misplaced words, reflecting a damaged crossword puzzle page.
A review of Michael Arming's The Great Decision recounts President Truman and advisers guiding the atomic bomb project from its secret origins to the decision to drop on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It notes parallel debates among scientists and officials, the moral stakes, and the aim to end the war with minimal total casualties.
A continuous review of a postwar English children’s book directory notes varied quality across titles. It highlights color, binding, and production, with strong examples from Macmillan and Whitcombe & Tombs, plus critical remarks on Australian works and a poor family games pamphlet. The piece emphasizes accessibility for librarians, booksellers, and families, and questions patronage of the arts by broadcasters.
Alfredo Campali, a maker of fine violins, is to perform at Albert Hall Canberra under A D. C. direction on Ind y trend 2 as part of the International Celebrity Concert series. Pianist Maurice Tull will accompany. The instrument is kept under strict guard in Genoa and is estimated at £12,000 though Campali believes its true value is far higher. Campali also pursues cine photography with extensive color film from travels and a recent award for an amateur war film in Russia. He plans Barrier Reef filming during Australia stay and will perform works by Vitali Brahms Poulenc Bach Kreisler and Paganini La Campanella.
A mix of wartime reportage and travel narratives dominates the new arrivals. Titles ranging from Ray Parkin's reflections on memory and sacrifice to Jos Stonehouse’s colonial experiences in the Northern Indesia routes appear alongside engineering bios of Kurt Tak and a study of journalists Alsop in World War II and beyond.
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