Books on Mexican American art and Southwest history
The review surveys Jacinto Quirarte’s Mexican American artists work and raises debate on national versus universal art. Also summarized are Mission San Xavier del Bac by Helga Teines French and The Sun Rides High by Orrin Ulysses Burright, noting page counts formats and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Universal
Jacinto Quirarte
Quirarte
Mexico
United States
University of Texas At San Antonio
APREF
Mission San Xavier del Bac
Helga Teines French
University of Arizona Press
Tucson
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Orrin Ulysses Burright
Nortex Publications
Wichita Falls
Tex
Orin Ulysses Burright
Library Corner highlights busy reading club and new titles
The reading club for children reports over 130 registrations, with high turnout and praise for Jenny Bradford. Notices note Burright’s Run in Oklahoma history, Poe criticism by Haldeen Braddy, and new gift books from Mrs. Parmelee and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Teague
Reading Club
Jenny Bradford
Pat
Word 5 Across Puzzle and Memorial Book List
A crossword clue list for Word 5 Across with several clues spanning Clenched to the rear of the b and Dutch city among others. The page also lists recent book purchases and memorial editions donated in memory of various individuals with names and donor pairings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial Building Fund
Gordon Shankle
Dick Whaley
Gus Leftwich
Carl Denny
Harry Thaten
Mary Alice Mitchell
Rowden Jefferies
J. W. Ables
Alton Landrum
Dan Davis
John D. Glenn
Snubbed For a Sniff By a Tiger
Gerald Durrell’s book Bevy of Beasts is reviewed with notes on tiger sniffing as a zoo keeper. The piece lists a price and publisher details and includes a word-finder style catalog of clues and page references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Durrell
Simon & Schuster
Durrell at Whipsnade Zoo and animal preservation plea
The excerpt recalls Durrell learning animal sniffs and his year at England’s Whipsnade Zoo, facing a tiger’s scorn and forming a lifelong passion for animal preservation. It also surveys Turner’s frontier thesis and its critics, with biographer Ray Allen Billington noted as ideal to appraise Turner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durrell
England
Whipsnade Zoo
Rembrandt
da Vinci
Phil Thomas AP
Serauen Turner
Turner
United States
Ray Allen Billington
Huntington Library
San Marino
Calif
Appraising Frederick Turner by Ray Allen Billington
A study of Frederick Jackson Turner by Ray Allen Billington from Oxford University Press clocks 599 pages and a $17.50 price. The work notes how historians like Turner can influence public thought beyond academia and cites parallels with Wilson and Roosevelt and the unifying roles of Bancroft and Beard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Jackson Turner
Ray Allen Billington
Oxford University Press
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
George Bancroft
Charles A. Beard
Beard
Coffee vending machines adapt to world tastes
Earl C. Ramsey of Rowe International notes regional taste differences require machines to vary coffee strength and sweetness. Japanese models aim for sweeter coffee, Swedish units double the strength, and South American machines adjust coin slots for inflation. In the U S, redesigned machines reduce bending for female service technicians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl C. Ramsey
Rowe International
United States
Ramsey
Industrial Building Offered With Guilt Edged Tenants
An advertisement in the Pretoria News offers an industrial building with guilt edged tenants. The notice highlights a ready income stream and stable occupancy for potential buyers in Pretoria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretoria
South Africa
Pretoria News
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Southwest Books
Robert E. Ford
Associated Press
University of Texas Press
Austin
USF
Preston
Hall
Childress
Texas
Jeep Motors
Fair Park
Curley Hays
Barbara Holeman
Joel Wilson
Burright
Dodge City
Free Land
Guthrie
Oklo
Poe
Haldeen Braddy
Texas Western Press
el Paso
Edgar Allan Poe
Braddy
University of Texas At el Paso
Jacqueline Susann
Velda Johnston
Fred Nelson
Claude Lane
Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A. B. Taff Sr
Joe B. Mills
Carol
H.H. Hargrove
Tom Lemen
Kinta
Janice Holt Giles
Bill Hassell
Union Flat Home Demonstration Club
Glendon Swarthout
H. E
Ed) Jones
Jerry Alan Barfield
Winston M. Estes
Clinton Halford
James Herriot
Charles Lamb
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Federal Revenue Sharing
Total Public Safety
Total Health
Glenn Buckley
City of Childress
Ronald C. Hood
Frederick Turner
Villyards
Rucker OK Tire Store
Deposit Insurance
First National
Whiue Duei
Mary K. Williams
First National Bank
Johnie K. Williams
Mary K
Amarillo Bank
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