Omar Binge and Branwell Bronte Biographies in Print
A humorous Parable Omar Ben Sufi’s night out in the Peple tale returns in its 28th printing illustrated by Raiford Porter. Daphne du Maurier argues Branwell Bronte’s hand in Wuthering Heights while a Brink’s robbery non fiction account from Specs O’Keefe and Bob Considine heads to Random House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Peple
John F. Blair
High Point College
Raiford Porter
Peple
Omar Ben Sufi
Ringtail Pete
Omar
Branwell Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Emily
Daphne du Maurier
Doubleday
Miss du Maurier
Branwell
Anglia
Charlotte
Carrer
Ellis
Acton Bell
Bennett Cerf
Random House
Boston
Brink's
Specs” O'Keefe
O'Keefe
Bob Considine
FBI
Ambidextrous science and government critique by Snow
Harvard author Charles P. Snow analyzes how small governing bodies decide on science issues. He centers on the Tizard Lindemann disputes over radar and strategic bombing in World War II, arguing danger when administrators decide uncertain science. He faces criticism from radar pioneer Watson Watt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Science and Government
Charles P. Snow
Harvard
Godkin
Henry Tizard
A. Lindemann
Lord Cherwell
Snow
Lindemann
Tizard
Churchill
Robert Watson-Watt
Sir Charles
Watson-Watt
As Good As Dickens and The Limits of Love reviews
The pieces compare Monica Dickens and Frederic Raphael novels set in postwar London. Dickens portrays a changing Cottingham Park with social decay, a dedicated teacher, and gang racial tensions while Raphael follows Adler family children shaping lives beyond Jewish shopkeeping. Both works use calm realism and broad social focus.
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London
Cottingham Park
Miss Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles’ Schmalz
Raphael
Adler
Lipchitz Jacques Lipchitz His Sculpture review
A. M. Hammacher's Lipchitz Jacques Lipchitz His Sculpture from Abrams analyzes the sculptor's manipulatory expression and links to cubism abstraction voids surrealism and free association. Hammacher, Holland's Rijksmuseum director, provides thorough scholarship with plentiful illustrations and an introduction by Lipchitz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacques Lipchitz
A. M. Hammacher
Abrams
Lipchitz
Hammacher
Holland
Rijksauseun Kroller- Muller
Concert Week Spurs High Point School Orchestras Praise
Verses detail North Carolina Music Contest Festival at Aycock Auditorium last Thursday with High Point Junior High and Senior High orchestras praised for performances. Mentions Barry Ruth conductor, season tickets at Sheraton lobby, and future guest acts like Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Ruth Page Chicago Opera Ballet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Janice
Aycock
High Point
Ferndale
Northeast
Barry Ruth
Sheraton Hotel
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Ruth Page
Chicago Opera Ballet
High Point Bookmobile Schedule Week Apr 10–14
Public library bookmobile routes listed for Monday through Friday with stop names and times across multiple neighborhoods and housing complexes. Omar's Binge notes this is a book page feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Public Library
Mill
Culler
Vail
Martin
Willard
Gordon
Ellwood
Wendell
Daniel Brooks
Omar
Sun Book
Henry Seidel Canby remembered for light and leading in American letters
Neal Austin recalls Henry Seidel Canby as a pivotal critic editor and teacher who shaped American literature through the Short Story in English the Yale Review the Saturday Review of Literature and the Book of the Month Club He is celebrated for bringing accessible good books to the public and for a life marked by humility humor and Quaker dignity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan
Ben
Hungary
Colin
Tessa
Julia
Paul
Raphael
Henry Seidel Canby
H. L. Mencken
Mencken
Canby
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale University
Christopher Morley
Saturday Review of Literature
Saturday Review
Thoreau
America
Best Sellers List Highlights Famed Authors and Works
A compilation of top titles across fiction and nonfic tion. Notable works include Hawaii by Michener The Last of the Just by Schwarz Bart A Burnt Out Case by Greene To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Advise and Consent by Drury The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer Fate is the Hunter by Gann Japanese Inn by Statler and Skyline by Fowler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaii
Michener
Schwarz-Bart
Shirer
Society
Armory
Fate
Gann
Texas Sons and Daughters review by Patricia Gallagher
A book review discusses Winesburg Ohio like Texas Today tale Texas setting Jill Turner Tommy Evans Cerise Worth and Judge Worth with themes of sex race and morality. The critic notes awkward passages but overall sympathy for Jill and Cerise's tragedy. It also explains the origin of the word thug from Hindustani and relates it to the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg
Ohio
Texas
Peyton Place
Jill Turner
Tommy Evans
Tommy
Cerise Worth
Cerise
Jill
Harry Morgan
Judge Worth
Beziqe Ancestor Card Game Ties to Pinochle Origins
The original game of bezique, ancestor of American pinochle, is linked to France around 1860 with roots traced to Scandinavia. It is noted as Sir Winston Churchill's favorite card game.
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France
Sir Winston Churchill
Glowing Ring of Bright Water Review
Gavin Maxwell’s Glowing Ring of Bright Water portrays a Scottish Highlands life with nature and animal portraits. The narrator recounts adopting a baby otter, Mij, their adventurous journey from Iraq to London, and the later arrival of Edal as a new heroine after Mij’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gavin Maxwell
Dutton
Scotland
Mij
Maxwell
Iraq
London
Scottish Highlands
Edal
Regular eruptions likened to lighthouses in Izalco and Stromboli
Izalco in El Salvador and Stromboli in the Mediterranean erupt with such regularity that scientists compare their activity to guiding lighthouses, marking a steady, predictable volcanic rhythm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Izalso
el Salvador
Stromboli
Mediterranean Sea
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Neal Austin
Lee
Drury
Statler
Skyline
Fowler
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Messner
India
Dick Patterson
Pam
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Earth
Margaret Mitchell
National Library
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