Books People in Cedar Rapids Are Reading This Week
A list of fiction and non fiction titles popular in Cedar Rapids includes works by Hemingway Hilton Struther Roberts Whipple and Caldwell along with biographies tax guides and travelogues. Also noted are classics by Cather Morley and Stong plus political works by Hitler and others reflecting broad reading trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Hemingway
Paul Engle
James Hilton
Mrs. Miniver
Jan Struther
Oliver Wiswell
Kenneth Roberts
Sapphira
Willa Cather
Kitty Foyle
Christopher Morley
Joshua
Maurine Whipple
Sholom Ash
Nina Fedorova
Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell
Heaven
Hartzell Spence
Jan Waltin
J. K. Lasser
Wiley
Adolf Hitler
Trelawney
Margaret Armstrong
Treasury of the World's Letters
M. L. Schuster
Osa Johnson
Emily Post
Hawkeyes
Phil Stong
Murray
The Bachelor Life review and Book of the Month picks
A review of George Jean Nathan's The Bachelor Life critiques its view of modern women and bachelor life. It notes Churchill's Blood, Sweat, and Tears as May Book of the Month selection and Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls as top book of 1948. It also highlights Eileen Bigland’s Into China, recounting her perilous Burma Yunnan journey with an ammo convoy into Chungking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eorge Jean Nathan
Nathan
George
Dorothy Thompson
D. H. Lawrence
Noel Coward
Book Talk
Scribblers Club
P.H
Bachelor
George Jean Nathn Reynal and
Fittedcock
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Putnam's
Burma Road
China
Eileen Bigland
Burma- Yunnan
Rangoon
India
Mrs. Bigland
Chungking
Pao Shan
Machtiling Companys
The New Garden Encyclopedia Review
Dozens of garden specialists edited The New Garden Encyclopedia a plain English reference on planning planting fertilizing caring for protecting gardens. It lists plants by botanical and common names and covers soil less gardening pests wildflowers moonlight lighting landscaping with 10 000 articles across 1 348 pages 250 photographs and 750 illustrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Garden Encyclopedia
E. L. D. Seymour
BSA. Wm
H. Wise and Co
Wedding Eve Murder and Other New Books in Review
Beulah Marie Dix’s thriller Wedding Eve Murder targets adolescents with a mix of idylls, sudden death, and detective hints set at a family manse during a cousin’s wedding. The piece notes Dix’s strong children’s work and situates the new title amid other contemporaries. Louis Adamic’s From Many Lands wins the John Anisfield award for racial relations. judges praise its portrayal of immigrant adjustment and identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Beulah Marie Dix
Dix
Sue
Ariana
Paxtons
Cissie
J. W
Beulah Marie Dix
Robert M McBride
Louis Adamic
John Anisfield
Henry Seidel Canby
Saturday Review of Literature
Henry Pratt Fairchild
New York University
Donald Young
Social Science Research Council
Students Of Ralph Leo To Appear In Recitals Today
Ralph Leo presents two private recitals at his home on 1528 A Avenue NE. The 4 p.m. program features Keith Ottsen baritone Don Harp ter tenor Frances Sebern soprano and Robert Jamieson baritone from Cornell college. The 8 p.m. recital includes James Ralston baritone Ed Griffith tenor and Norman Emerson tenor with Leo at the piano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Leo
Keith Ottsen
Don Harpter
Frances Sebern
Robert Jamieson
Cornell College
James Ralston
Ed Griffith
Norman Emerson
Mr Leo
A Avenue NE
Young Matrons Honor Husbands At Supper
The YWCA Young Matrons club held a potluck Valentine supper honoring their husbands with decorations led by Mrs. Leo Holmes and Mrs. Joseph Loufek. Attendees included multiple couples and Cedar Rapids area members who also toured WSUI in Iowa City. New officers were elected for the Kenwood Park and Van Buren clubs with names listed among attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y.W.C A
Leo Holmes
Joseph Loufek
J. L. Berger
Herbert Beckman
Frank Brejcha
Robert Fosnacht
Ralph Guy
Holmes
Howard Lee
van Buren Club
Mary Jane Goodyear
Third Street
Miss Goodyear
Joann Pepin
Jeanette Mrstik
Barbara Lynch
Joyce Ann Dwyer
Marianne Link
Donna Kruse
Shirley Mathews
Jean Mallus
Mardi Gras at Grace Church with Spanish orchestra
Grace Church hosts a Mardi Gras masquerade on Shrove Tuesday Feb 25 from 8 pm to midnight in the parish hall. Los Amigos Spanish orchestra plays, grand march at 10 pm, costumes judged with prizes, stage show by Malcolm Metcalf and minstrels, dancing by Helen Lidenken’s class, fortune telling, door prize, and bridge tables. Admission via door, Lent bells mark midnight. General chair Mrs. Witlack invites public, refreshments by Mrs. John Drabelle, and Mrs. Almont Healy handles bridge reservations. Irene Douglas circle meets for luncheon at Mrs. Bondurant’s home. new member elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Church
Los Amigos
W. L. S. Jones
John Drabelle
Malcolm Metcalf
Helen Lindeken
School of Dancing
Almont Healy
George Witlack
Mrs Henery To Be Speaker At B And P.W. Club Meeting
The Business and Professional Women's club hosts a dinner meeting Tuesday at 6 30 pm in the Roosevelt hotel Roosevelt room with the Los Amigos orchestra directed by John E Topez. Mrs Louise M Henely of Grinnell will speak on A Visit to Our South American Neighbors as part of a goodwill tour arrangements by the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business and Professional Women's Club
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Hotel
International Relations Committee
Los Amigos Orchestra
John E. Jtopez
Louise M Henely
Grinnell
South America
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Mariana Sackett
Marguerite Hammond
Marjorie Augustine
Lillian Frantz
Helen Cooksey
Ann Melvedt
Stary
Marriage Announcement for Margaret Means and Keith W Taylor
Mr and Mrs Lester Means of Iowa City announce the marriage of their daughter Margaret Alice Means to Keith W Taylor son of Mr and Mrs H W Taylor of Olin. The ceremony occurred December 23 1940 at Kahoka Missouri with Rev J M Monroe officiating. Mrs Taylor is a University High School graduate and nursing graduate from St Luke's Cedar Rapids. The couple resides in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Means
Iowa City
Margaret Alice Means
Keith W Taylor
H. W. Taylor
Olin
Kahoka
J. M. Monroe
Taylor
University High School
University of Iowa
St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing
Cedar Rapids
Olin High School
Coe College
Alpha Delta Alpha Fraternity
Youth Observe World Day Of Prayer In City
City inter church committee plans an interdenominational World Day of Prayer service at Church of the Brethren on Feb 28 from 4 to 5 pm with instrumental numbers a vocal solo and a Youth Prays play featuring Coe college cast. Churches schools urged to cooperate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Brethren
David I Berger
St Paul's Methodist Church
Coe College
Woman's Club to hear Dr. Neff on children's hospital
R Robert E Neff of Iowa City administrator of the University hospitals will address Cedar Rapids Woman's club Monday at 2 30 pm in the club house on the children's hospital. The session precedes a schedule of department meetings and club activities for the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Club
Robert Neff
R. Robert E. Neff
Iowa City
University Hospitals
Cedar Rapids Woman's Club
Optimist Club Dinner Dance Initiates Twenty-Two
The Optimist club will initiate twenty two new members Tuesday evening. A dinner dance at 6 30 p m will honor their wives. Thomas Termohlen leads the dinner in the Crystal ballroom of the Hotel Montrose with Alvin J Keyes directing the evening program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Optimist Club
Thomas Termohlen
Crystal Ballroom
Hotel
Montrose
Eveting
Alsvin J. Keyes
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Audubon
America
Pilgrim's Way
Tre-lawney
Verdun
John D. Rockefeller
American Booksellers Associ
Naomi Doebel
For
Gardeners
Dix Thriller
Max Brand
Dodd, Mead and Co
Jackson Crane
Meador of
Boston
Ono Radio Council
WSUIL
Cedar Rapids Radio Council
WSUI
R. K. Stoddard
Mary Josephine
Mt. Mercy
George H. Bryant
Irving Churchill
Robert L. Stonebraker
M. J. Frankel
T. G. Armstrong
Thirty-fifth Street
Women's Missionary Society
Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church
R. S. Robbie
R. C. Barnhart
Charles Norberg
Melburn Grant
George Holmes
Norberg
St. Paul’s Church
Grant
Predy Second Street NE
van Buren
John Steinbeck
Peni
Depulare
Rems
Ernest Meminaway
Ethel Vance
Christopher Morey
Philo Vance
van Dine
Sanford
Miss Virginia Ames Ballard
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du Bois
Virginia Ames Ballard
Walter Loraine Cherry, Jr
Winnetka, Ill
Miss Ballard
Roger Kingsley Ballard
Mr. Cherry
Walter L. Cherry
Irene Douglas
The
King’s Daughters
G. J. Bondurant
Eighteenth Street
A. T. Pleune
W. L. Harrison
P O. Clark
L. M. Downing
Second Avenue
Rudolph Stary
California
W. E. Gammon
Louis Heral
Frank Harapot
George Marapot
Charles Kadlee
John Underlik
Adolph Nemec
Louis Jedlicka
Carrie Burlingame
Jack Hartman
John Jacobson
Frank Cabalka
Joe Cabalka
George Scurlock
Frank Masha
Frank Krat
Vanity-Fair
Radia Rayon
Newman
Mary Miles
Margaret Means
Keith W. Taylor
Wilson Hi-Y-Ette
Martha Griffith
Gail Phillipson
Red Cross
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Dorothy Andresen
Catherine Morgan
Alene Dvorak
Carol Brush
Lilian Dusek
Shirley Kreutner
Jean Schluntz
Gertrude Knake
Virginia Field
Mizpah
A. J Anderson
Maple Drive
Paul Speraw
George de Grant
L. D Kreig
R. A. Kocn
Lavettes
L. R Buffington
First Avenue
Charles, Bode
Guy McKibben
Turner Mortuary
Second Avenue SE
David Turner
G. Barger
R . McWilliams
L. C Schnknecht
Dial
L. A. Talbott
Nature and Garden Department
Emil Ras
Mussen
Derald
Peattie
Miss Mars O*shek
Mount Vernon
George Washington
Cedar Rapids Gardens
Yazlewood
Charis Wallgreen
Chicago
Health Education
Dutc
Red Crow
YMCA
Lincoln
J, T Morris
T, V, Brady
P J. McBurney
Mari Helen Williams
W CA
Burch
Gay
Nyeekdave
Senawan
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