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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
May 21, 1960
Page
5
A review of David Storey’s This Sporting Life notes the novel centers on dressing room tensions rather than football. Arthur Machin’s rise with Primystone, his care for a sick landlady and her children, and the coarse, unheroic behavior of players define the tale as honest but not uplifting or inspiring.
Michigan State University Press publishes Selected Works of Henry Lawson in the United States and Canada. Lyle Blair provides the selection and introduction, with notes on Australian language and Eureka Stockade. The piece critiques publishers and notes the lack of a definitive Lawson biography. Price five.
Australian painter Tom Thompson, 36, began work on three murals for the first floor of Australia House in London. Chosen from many Australian artists, he arrived with wife Mar and daughters Susan and Heather. The murals will depict Australian industry mining and agriculture, with Thompson stating he often paints in bits rather than complete scenes.
The Assistant Director Mr R C M Dale announced three new Norfolk Island Post stamps 1d 2d and 9d will go on sale May 23 at the Canberra City Post Office and Philatelic Section. This marks the first time Territorial stamps are offered at Canberra’s Philatelic Section.
Lord Birdwood's biography examines the 1958 Baghdad killings of Prime Minister Nuri as-Said and the royal purge, tracing Nasser, Kassem forces, and Iraqi fate. It highlights Nuri’s role in oil wealth, the Samarra dam, and the 1958 federation with Jordan, set against regional anti western and anti Nasser currents.
Boris Pasternak, the Russian author, has shown improvement after a heart attack several days ago. Close friends in Moscow say he is under care at the Kremlin Hospital, and note this is not his first heart attack.
A Children's Book Council review roundup covers The House of the Swan by Elizabeth Coatsworth with illustrations by Kathleen Voute, The Nine Lives of Island Mackenzie by Ursula Moray Williams with Edward Ardizzone, and Stars for Christy by Mabel Leigh Hunt. Reading ages span 6 to 15 with notes on village life in France, mystery, whimsy, and heartfelt family themes.
Eighteen Australian Student Christian Movement volunteers, including six women, will preach in Anglican, Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian churches in Sydney this Sunday. They promote the Life and Mission of the Church project, a six year programme by the World Student Christian Federation aimed at rethinking the church’s task in the modern world.
Fragmented crossword clues list with partial answers and garbled entries. Includes prompts like Small wave six letters and Obstructed six letters, with stray letters and misprints. Indicates a damaged page snippet requiring interpretation into coherent clues and solutions.
A one volume history by Cyril Falls covers the European and Near Eastern theatres 1914 18. Also features books on escape travel and politics by Alfred Hutchinson, Jim Mason by Trevelyan, and Ingrid Bergman by Steele.
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