Eye-Catching Books for Christmas Gifts
New York AP notes gift books flood stores for the season with lavish color illustrations and high prices. Highlights cover American art history and travel, nature, and hobbies, featuring works by Flexner, Lynes, Ormond, Meiss, van Puyvelde, Gaunt, and Cousteau, among others.
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New York
Putnam
Thomas Flexner
America
Russell Lynes
Atheneum
Harper
John Singer Sargent
Richard Ormond
Praeger
Irving Sandler
Thomas Nelson Inc
Lucile Henzke
Simon & Schuster
William Gaunt
New York Graphic
Jean Sutter
Robert L. Herbert
Vincent van Gogh
J. Baart de la Faille
Reynal
Picasso
Random House
Selecting Christmas Trees in College Station
In College Station Texas Everett Janne of Texas A M University offers tips for choosing fresh Christmas trees. He says shop early and check needles for resilience and attachment by bending and running fingers along branches. A gentle shake tests needle retention and freshness.
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College Station
Tex
Everett Janne
Texas A&m University
Raymond Lukens
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Rugged six inch flower shear for gardeners by Stanley Tools
Compact six inch flower shear by Stanley Tools features fiberglass reinforced nylon handles and a replaceable blade via a simple nut. Built in stem crusher, rose-design pouch, and a price around three dollars make it a practical gift for gardeners.
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Stanley Tools
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Ritchie Calder
Millard Meiss
Braziller
van Eycks
Metsys
Leo van Puyvelde
McGraw-Hill
Gottfried Lindeman
Walker
Mervyn Levy
Felix H. Man
Viking
Cyril Barrett
Paris
Hermann Schardt
A. S. Barnes
Budapest
Oxford Companion To
Oxford University Press
Harold Osborne
Henry Lionel Williams
Otalie K. Williams
Coward-McCann
Phyllis Lee Levin
Rita Rief
Appalachian
Great Smoky Mountains
Eliot Porter
Edward Abbey
Dutton
Maine
Hawaii
Arnold Ehrlich
Alaska
Heinrich Gohl
Rand McNally
Robert Goodman
Gavan Daws
Ed Sheehan
Walker-Weatherhill
Herbert Tichy
of Jesus
W. E. Pax
Christ
Athens
Giulio Giannelli
Imperial Gardens of
Japan
Takeji Iwamiya
Teiji Itoh
Walker- Weatherhill
The
United States
Southwestern States
Harold William Rickett
Barbara Everard
Brian D. Morley
Crown
Lotus
Margery Milne
Cowles
Hrh
Prince Philip
James Fisher
World Wildlife Fund
Ann and
Myron Sutton
Harper’s ‘Superior
Charles Steinbacker
Arno Karlen
Hodding Carter
Douglas Falkner
C. Lavett Smith
Indian Ocean
Red Sea
Jacques-Ives Cousteau
Phillipe Cousteau
Doubleday
Asa Briggs
Edmund Stillman
Marshall B. Davidson
Abraham Lincoln
David Plowden
Viking Press
Lincoln
Donald Macintyre
Random
Lord Feversham
Basil W. Bathe
McGraw- Hill
James Gilbert
Grosset
Dunlop
Henry P. Davis
Stackpole
Louis J. Gartner Jr
Morrow
John V. Lindsay
London Daily Sketch
Anthea Disney
Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Israel
Moshe Dayan
Maurice, la
Alexis Clark
Ted
Elvis
Lee Perry
Melba
David Reynolds
White Oak
Texas
Mrs. Lee Perry
Phillips Electric Company
Pho
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Ed Paglor
Gladewater
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