Reading List Shows Rich Mix of Classic Works
Cedar Rapids readers list highlights spanning fiction and non fiction across many renowned authors. Notable titles include For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway and Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, plus Mrs Miniver by Struther and How Green Was My Valley by Llewellyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Wiswell
Kenneth Roberts
Sapphira
Willa Cather
Mrs. Miniver
Jan Struther
Lella Warren
Kitty Foyle
Christopher Morley
John Steinbeck
Elisabeth Ford
Green
My Valley
Richard Llewellyn
Engle and O'Brien Highlight Poet Paul Engle Novel News
Engle and O'Brien spotlight poet Paul Engle as Random House plans Always the Land due late this month. The piece notes Engle's ties to Mount Vernon SE stables and his Jay G Sigmund tribute in American Prefaces. It hints at Iowa City events around Hartzell Spence’s visit and filming of One Foot in Heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Engle
Random House
New York
Paul
Thomas A Engle
Fifth Avenue SE
Engle
Mount Vernon Avenue
Edward J. O'Brien
England
London
O’brien
Jay G Sigmund
Sigmund
Wilbur Schramm
University of Iowa
O'Brien
Irwin Shaw
Jesse Stuart
Jay G. Sigmund
Jay Sigmund
Morris Sanford
Ed Lowe
American Trust Building
Cedar Rapids
W. M
Iowa City
Heaven
Spence
Towa City
Hollywood
United Press
New York City
Netherlands resistance and hope amid Nazi threat
E N Van Kleffens recounts May 1940 and Holland’s fight for neutrality, the fifth column, Rotterdam bombing, and royal escape to England. The review notes the book Juggernaut Over Holland portrays a pacifist nation drawn into war, defending free institutions and promising a future free Netherlands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Netherlands
Gestapo
Holland
E. N. van Kleffens
van Kleffens
Rotterdam
England
van Kieffens
Fen van Kieffens
Columbia University Press
Embezzled Heaven and YWCA rifle class at church range
A Catholic Book Club selection Embezzled Heaven by Franz Werfel is noted alongside a new YWCA health recreation rifle range at the First Presbyterian Church basement. The junior patrols of troop 27 built the range and will host weekly practice for sessions led by Mari Helen Williams with registrations ongoing at the YWCA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catholic Book Club
E.N.H
Franz Werfel
Viking Press
First Presbyterian Church
Y. W. C. A. Health Recreation Department
Mari Helen Williams
George Harapot
Betty Like
Ruth Erdice
Small Town Poems and a Communist Exposé Teased in One Page
A nostalgic reminiscence titled Oh Millersville celebrates Fern Gravel and Iowa life with poems from a nine year old girl later bound by Carroll Coleman at The Prairie Press Muscatine. The same page preview notes Jan Valtin’s Out of the Night a Book-of-the-Month club pick alleging a 20 year service with the Communist International and claims of espionage murder and sabotage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fern
Millersville
Chicago
Iowa
Carroll Coleman
the Prairie Press
Muscatine
Communist International
Jan Valtin
Alliance Book Corporation
Valtin
San Francisco
Reunion in January with a sunlit winter ride
A nostalgia filled ride described as a reunion with a favorite horse after two weeks, highlighting a clear evening ride under unseasonal blue skies, near zero temperatures, and a smooth, ice-free high road ideal for winter footing. The piece notes the horse’s good form, the rider’s ease, and a call for caution on ice patches and sharp shod hooves.
Jane Garwood At Camp Fire Conference in New York
Miss Jane Garwood attends the biennial Camp Fire executives conference in New York City January 12 to 18. The event gathers over 100 local Camp Fire leaders from across the United States for meetings and a Friday banquet at the Hotel Roosevelt honoring Miss Edith Kempthorne, national field secretary of 25 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Garwood
Cedar Rapids
New York City
Camp Fire Girls
United States
Hotel Roosevelt
Edith Kempthorne
Camp Fire Gulf
Kempthorne
Lizes
Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde
Denmark
Margaret Speaks
Kingsbury Curtis
Tuxedo Park
National Board of Directors
Calendar of Civil Events and Games in Cedar Rapids Area
Be forecast of events today in Cedar Rapids and nearby cities. The list includes girls conference at the YWCA, Silver Skates at Cedar Rapids Winter Sports Club, a lecture by Dr Charles E Finley, Founders Day tea by Linn county union of the King's Daughters and Sons, and school term sessions. Also scheduled are Monticello vs Roosevelt basketball, Grace L Lockhoff recital, Coe vs Cornell basketball, and Jacques Jolas piano recital. Other items include Hew Roberts lecture, McKinley vs Wilson, Roosevelt vs Franklin, Military ball at Iowa Union, West Waterloo vs McKinley, EO Founders day luncheon, and a ski-jumping tournament at Dubuque Longview Skiway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Union of the King’s Daughters and Sons
Gas Company
Monticello
Roosvelt
Roosevelt
Grace L. Lockhoff
Coe College
Mount Vernon
Coe
Cornell
Jacques Jolas
van Vechten Shaffer
Iowa City
Hew Roberts
Senate
Old Capitol
McKinley
Wilson
Franklin
Iowa Union
Chinatown charity event features art sale and shadow play
A New York Chinatown fundraiser offers a bowl of the supper for the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Red Gate players perform a shadow play, with Chinese art objects on exhibit and a musical program by the Chinese dramatic association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorks
Chinatown
American Bureau
China
Red Gate Players
Chinese Dramatic Association
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hartzellt Spence
Louis Adamic
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Readers Digest
Theodore Roosevelt
Phil Stong
Pierre van Paassen
Lin Yutang
Alfred Adler
Phyllis Bottome
Winston Churchill
Rene Kraus
Cornelia Spencer
Engle and
Hartzell Spence
Dorothy Draper
U. S
Johann S. Bach
Hendrik W. van Loon
R. C. A. Bach
Maribel Vinson
Rockwell & Trayson
Raymond Stites
Elizabeth Moore
Craig Rice
Ellery Queen
Timothy Fuller
Anthony Boucher
H. Ashbrook
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Cornell Woolrich
Stanford
Rob Estakrook
Teta
Mojmir
Eugene
Maria Jolas
Cornell College
Mt Vernon
James Joyce
Ulysses
Finnegan
Joyce
Vichy
France
Switzerland
Klinger
Wall Paper and Paint CO
Second Avenue SE
Small Town Poems
Joan Witmer
H. N Strader
Eastern Iowa Racing Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Frank Wiswall
United States Trotting Association
Cedar Rapids Society For the
Third Avenue SW
Society
Kadocio Camxip
Kadocio
Arthur Norman
Ninth Street
Elaine Norman
Inez Kruse
Blanche McPherson
Carol Wiegner
Geraldine Allen
Mary Virginia Crane
Mressesud
ACE Cleaners
IST
3Rd Ave
Camp Fire
Barbizon Plaza
Lester F Scott
Frank Kingdon
Kingdon
Lanne A Penney Company, Incorporated
West Waterloun
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Dubuque
Longview Skiway
Camp Five
St Luke's Hospital
Mercy Hospital
H Bich
Government and Social Welfare Department
League of Women Voters
Montrose
Birch
Sara Park
3Rd St
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