The Golden Years Social Life Is Secondary
Thomas Collins profiles Leonard M. Fraser who retires from a social life drive to seek practical work. Fraser buys a half-interest in an electrical repair shop for 2500 dollars, becomes office manager for 50 dollars monthly, and plans growth while noting social life fades without meaningful purpose. He suggests the service trade suits retirees, blending work with occupation and limited social events.
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Leonard M. Fraser
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Grand Central Station
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Remarkable Janos Stokossy Hero of Magyar Turmoil
Ceci land reviews The Remarakable, a historical novel set on the Hungary Turks fringe in the early 16th century. Janos Stokossy, a Magyar landowner, pursues a bride in Vienna but marries her sister Catherine after his betrothal falters. Denis, his literate brother, seizes power at a nearby castle, faces a Turkish siege, and proves courage. Miss Holland’s first book, The Firedrake, is noted for clipped prose and survival themes.
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Americans Impatient On The Path Of Change
A review of Eric Hoffer's The Temper Of Our Time notes readers may resist some generalizations but agree the collection provokes, challenges, and stimulates. The author argues that rapid societal change fuels a defining impatience in this era.
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Eric Offer
Harper
Hoffer
The Best Sellers and Ideals of Crichton Drury Renault and Hoffer
A critical survey of fiction and nonfiction titles followed by an analysis of S I Crichton Drury Renault and Adolphs works. The piece discusses social and political themes from A Time of Juveniles A Return to Nature and The Negro Revolution noting proposals for boot strap self help and dual societies while praising Hoffer as a self educated longshoreman thinker whose ideas mirror the electronic age.
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Hoffer
Walden Pond
Little Jimmie Sizemore comeback with Decca reissue
James L Sizemore, once known as Little Jimmie of Asher and Little Jimmie Sizemore, has a Decca album of their 1930s hits. He and his father toured the hillbilly circuit, earning up to 1,250 dollars a night and selling five million songbooks. The duo, now semi retired in Arkansas, recently appeared at the Grand Ole Opry and say Decca released the set after Owen Bradley helped locate masters.
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Peaks Named For Student at UC Berkeley
A University of California student had nunataks in Antarctica named after him in 1980 by the National Bureau of Standards engineer C Morse. The nunataks lie on a glacier surrounded mountain area in Antarctica and honor the student’s work.
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