Meredith Willson visits Cedar Rapids and relives music fame
Meredith Willson and family stopped in Cedar Rapids to greet Les Zacheis, the Gazette music critic, and autograph a few bars of music for Nye daughters. The visit coincided with Willson's busy Broadway schedule and a dedication in Mason City before heading to California.
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Cedar Rapids
Meredith
University of Iowa
Fifth Street
The
Gazette
Hazel Tessman
Les Zacheis
Zacheis
Sui
Les
Lena Rollins
Nadine Subotnik
Hazel
Willson
Frank Nye
Frank
Nye
Willsons
Subotnik
Mason City
California
Broadway
Meredith Willson
Mollie Brown
Ike’s Foreign Spending Ban Gets Buchwald Action
Paris satire by Art Buchwald portrays President Eisenhower’s gold reserves notice as he jokes about a family budget crisis. A narrator in France blames a spending spree, calls for a buy American policy, and mails his gold wedding ring to the White House to show concern.
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Ike
Buchwald
Paris
Eisenhower
United States
New York
U.S
France
Danielle
White House
New Books Review from Doubleday and Harcourt Brace
The piece highlights Jean Kerr’s The Snake Has All The Lines a sunny collection on domestic crises with humor aided by Whit ney Darrow Jr. cartoons and notes its witty take on family life. It also reviews A Wind from the North by Ernie Bradford a documentary on Prince Henry the Navigator noting its rich sources and library value.
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Jean Kerr
Doubleday
Walter Kerr
Suburbia
Ernie Bradford
Harcourt, Brace
Cortugal
Prince Henry
Man l
America
Portugal
Philippa
Henry
Peter
Helen Goddard
The Gold Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
Italian writer Giorgio Bassani opens his career with a short classic about Dr. Athos Fadigati an famed ear nose and throat specialist. The 143 page vignette covers his decline tragic end beginning at the end of World War I and includes the author facing confinement to a Jewish reservation.
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Borgio Bassani
Bassani
Athos Fagigati
Dr. Fadigati
The Nelson Touch Review by Paul Lewis
A historical novel presents Horatio Nelson as a human figure rather than a distant icon. The critique notes emphasis on character depth and narrative style though the excerpt truncates at page nine.
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Nelson
Paul Lewis
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Horatio
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