Novel by Agnar Mykle stirs Norwegian censorship row
Americans gain access to LASSO AROUND THE MOON by Agnar Mykle, a controversial Norwegian writer. The book follows a young school principal in a northern coastal town who becomes involved with two women, prompting police scrutiny and court battles over obscenity surrounding his earlier work The Song of the Red Ruby. The case evolves to a Supreme Court ruling overturning a prior confiscation. The piece also notes forthcoming U.S. publication and a vivid wartime reminiscence by J Bryan.
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Dalton
Agnar Mykle
Norway
Mykle
Oslo
Supreme Court
Dutton
U.S. Yate
On Two Levels IN THE ABSENCE OF MAGIC
Ernest Pawel’s novel traces Burt’s quest from Berlin through a fractured bond with Peter Kersten. The hunt returns to danger as Burt bears gifts to Peter’s world while Dolores and Mitrya confront a fragile sanctuary. The story probes violence, guilt, survival, and a physician who cannot heal himself.
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Ernest Pawel
Macmillan
Annette
Max
Eleanor
Burt
Peter Kersten
Berlin
New World
Peter
Mitrya
Dolores
Pawel
Fun And Frolic Eating People Is Wrong
Malcolm Bradbury sets a first novel about a 40ish English department head at a modest university. Treece clings to ideals yet drifts into cynicism while mentoring and courting students and colleagues. Emma and Viola offer contrasting visions of love as witty, poignant, and flawed.
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Malcolm Bradbury
Knopf
Oxford
Cambridge
Treece
Viola
Emma
Bradbury
Compton- Burnett
Nicholsons
Joox
Freli
Windfall Of Words On Way By W. G. Rogers
In the next two to three months busy bookstores will stock hundreds of novels and studies on people and places from Hawaii to Gettysburg and Paris to the Philippines. Prominent works include The Leopard and Set This House on Fire, plus bios of Frost and Napoleon, with poetry, art books, and music titles also due from major publishers.
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W. G. Rogers
Associated Press
New York
Api—Tin
Hawaii
Russia
Philippines
Gettysburg
Paris
Albert Schweitzer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stanislavsky
Admiral Tojo
Charles H
St. Francis of Assisi
Mt Desert Island
Harry S.truman
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Bernard Geis
Ezra Taft Benson
Doubleday
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Pantheon
William Styron
Random House
Major
Sceper
Robert Marshall
Scotland
Ives Washburn
Carrington
Michael Straight
Knopf
Cranton
John W. Aldridge
Mckay
C. P Snow
Ovid William Pierce
Ernest Frankel
Dial
John Masters
India
Harper
Donnile
Ltussia
Don Camillo
Giovanni Guareschi
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Gabriel Fielding
Greenbloom
Morrow
Robert Frost
George W. Nitchie
Duke University
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
Istence
Gilbert Highet
Oxford
M. J. Rosenthal
Ezra Pound
Macmillan
Pacific
Herbert Gold
Bernard Baruch
Grace Metalious
Hemingway
Igor Stravinsky
Robert Craft
Minnie
Lewisohn Stadium
Minnie Guggenheimer
Sophie Guggenheimer Untermeyer
Alix Williamson
Censors and censorship in Thomasville spark debate
The piece analyzes a self styled moral guardians group backed by clerics in Thomasville that purges magazines it calls objectionable. It chronicles secrecy, lack of defined obscenity standards, and a cascade from magazines to books and even Shakespeare, arguing censorship erodes personal liberty and expands beyond its initial target.
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Thomasville
Loretta Young
Miss Young
Whitmore
James Joyce
D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterly
Lucrece
Klopj
W.p.mooney
Space chamber being built in New Jersey for NASA tests
A pressure chamber under construction in Union New Jersey will simulate stratospheric conditions for astronauts and space vehicles. Built by Tenney Engineering for NASA, it will be shipped to Cape Canaveral to test the Project Mercury capsule ahead of a planned launch.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Durrell's Clea closes the Alexandria saga in lush prose
Lawrence Durrell's final volume in the Justine Balthazar Mount Olive sequence returns Darley to Alexandria amid wartime intrigue. The cast includes Nessim Justine Clea Mount Olive and Pursewarden with themes of love incest and sensory abundance. Durrell’s prose is praised as vividly sensual and painterly, weaving a cosmopolitan cast through passion and crisis.
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Clea
Lawrence Durrell
Dutton
Justine
Balthazar
Mount Olive
Durrell
Darley
Melissa
Nessim
Alexandria
Egypt
New Israel
Narouz
Liza
Pursewarden
Pombal
Scobie
Leila
Fosca
Uta Best Sellers Summary List
A list of Uta Best Sellers featuring titles and authors such as Hawaii by Michener and Advise and Consent, The Constant Image by Davenport, Ourselves to Know by O Hara, Two Weeks in Another Town by Shaw, May This House Be Safe From Tigers by King, Folk Medicine by Jarvis, Act One by Hart, The Enemy Within by Kennedy, My Wicked Wicked Ways by Fiymo.
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Hawaii
Michener
Davenport
O'Hara
Shaw
King
Jarvis
Hart
Kennedy
Fiymo
Misdirected Checks Cashed Scandal Hits Frederick Nelson Case
In Baltimore a 44 year old, Frederick ZA Nelson, cashed 36769 dollars in checks mailed to his office by mistake in 1956 due to a mailing machine mixup. He was convicted of felony forgery and larceny and faces sentencing. The checks were intended for a different Nelson concern, not his own.
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Baltimore
Frederick ZA
Nelson
Marlin Co
Frederick
Emixup
Byzantine mosaics in UNESCO Greek collection
A UNESCO World Art Series volume presents 38 full page color plates and four B W images of Byzantine mosaics largely from Constantinople and Thessaloniki churches. Texts by Grahar and Chatzidakis note the fifth to millennium spans and the Greek predominance. A UNESCO mission borrowed lighting from the Greek army for the photos.
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Greece
Unesco
Andre Grahar
Manolis Chatzidakis
New York Graphic Society
Constantinople
Chatzidakis
Hosios Lukas
Nea Mons
Daphni
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