The Promise of Joy and Other Readers' Picks
A collage of notices and reviews covers Allen Drury’s The Promise of Joy as a climactic political novel, Thomas Gifford’s The Wind Chill Factor on the Fourth Reich peril, John Cooper's search in Cooper's Falls amid Nazi intrigue, a repeal of Washington’s admissions tax affecting arts groups, and regional gas field reports in the Northwest Territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Drury
America
Russia
China
Thomas Gifford
John Cooper
Cyril
Cooper's Falls
John
South America
Europe
The
Cooper
Washington
Jack Golodner
Advocates For the Arts
Pittsburgh
Spokane
Milwaukee
Miami
Cincinnati
Houston
Atlanta
Minneapolis
Associated Councils of the Arts
National Service Organization For
Ford state dinner features Cliburn and Sills among star guests
President and Mrs. Ford hosted a state dinner for Prime Minister Harold Wilson with notable attendees including East Texas pianist Van Cliburn at Mrs. Ford's table, joined by Beverly Sills and stars like Cary Grant and Warren Beatty. Centerpieces used duck decoys from the American Folk Art Museum in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Harold Wilson
East Texas
van Cliburn
Margaret Truman Daniel
Henry Kissinger
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Beverly Sills
Cary Grant
Warren Beatty
Kirk Douglas
Nelson Rockefeller
American Folk Art Museum of New York
Blessing Attends Texas Special Education Conference
Maleta Blessing joined the Mid-Winter Conference of the Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education in Austin January 29 to 31. TEA officials outlined Plan A progress, SB 803 impact on deaf programs, and long range goals while noting 217 Plan A programs and 135000 students served last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TCASE
Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education
Austin
Maleta Blessing
Gladewater
Texas
Bob Montgomery
TEA
Don Partridge
Partridge
Hospital news items and Mason-Dixon Line note
Hospital admissions list from CITY HOSPITAL and HART CLINIC HOSPEPAL with several named patients. A separate passage explains the Mason-Dixon Line running east to west between Pennsylvania and Maryland with a southern branch toward Delaware, referencing the 1750 compromise by the English Court of Chancery to resolve Calvert and Penn land disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
Calvert's
Penns
Pennyslvana
Court of Chancery
Rotary marks 65th anniversary with Troop 194 campout
Carl Weeks and Rotary Treasurer B. P. Dake led members of Troop 194 as Rotary International celebrated its 65th anniversary. The two day campout occurred at Broadway School last weekend with local Rotarians participating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Weeks
Rotary
B. P. Dake
Rotary International
Broadway School
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lee Library
Pointed Mountain
Northwest Territories
Action In the Arts
By Donna Knox
Longview Museum and Arts Center
Charles Jones
Stephen F. Austin State University
L. Benson Warren
Cameron University
Lawton
Oklo
Longview
Jan B. Statman
al Brouillette
Texas Watercolor Society
Pennsylvania Farm House
Hearsay Originals, Inc
TWS
McNay Art Institute
San Antonio
Dr. Palmer Chrisman
Temple
His
Bettie Haller
Lubbock
Jim Tidmore
Frederick-Nila
North Fourth
Chrisman
Texas Tech
Tidmore
Gregg Art Guild
Frieda Wieck
Phyllis Haase
Frankie Miller
Henderson
Citizen's Bank of
Wieck
First National Bank
Haase
Federal Savings and
Lean Miller
Henderson Art League
Louisiana State Museum
Shreveport
Tyler Art League
Gamma Phi Beta
Museum of Fine Arts
Shamrock Hilton
Holcombe Stree
Mrs. Blessing
L. P. Sturgeon
TSTA
Coal Age
Kentucky
E-Lim
Weat Jobe Drug CO
Hospital News
Murriel Arlette Simpson
Donnie Melton Watson
Vertice Ola Melton
George Harold Hudson
Jessie Pearl
Hilgenhorst
Pauline Mae Harroff
Nancy Jane Williams
Lelia Murriel Mason
Odis Greer
Arthur Dunn
Walter Franklin Smith
Bonnie Leona Bane
Andrew T. Woody
Walter F. Smith
Irene Thelma McRae
Enna Johnson
Martha R. Davis
Augusta Carpenter
Jessie L. Butts
Arvon Theo Rogers
Annie Laurie Lewis
Aubrey
Hart Clinic
Richard Smith
Diane Haslett
Lenatha Greer
E. A. McDonald
Verlean Wallace
Mrs. Ora Phillips
Carolyn Johnson
Johnny Fay Burge
Harry McMahon
Carrie Lee
Riley Johnson
J. D. White
Joyce Jerdon
Roy Carpenter
Lois Carpenter
Sadie Bright
Sarah Freeman
Johnny F. Burge
Kilgore
F.H.A. Loans
Night Depository Safe Deposit Savings Accounts Trust Department
Dial
Foic
First State Bank
Gladewater, TE
Jimmy Blackmon
Rotary Club
Royce Ford
Jcpenney
Ima McFall
Kay Moyers
J. C. Penneys
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