The Marauders and the 5307th Unit in Burma
Charlton Ogburn Jr. recounts the 5307th Composite Unit Provisional known as Merrill’s Marauders. Formed from 3000 volunteers, they fought behind Japanese lines in Northern Burma in 1944, marching 700 miles and engaging in 22 engagements before most were sent home.
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Harper's
Charlton Ogburn Jr
Southeast Asia
Pacific
Middle East
Burma
Merill
Frank Merrill
5307Th
United States
Caribbean
Southwest Pacific
San Francisco
India
Ledo Road
Connecticut
Joseph Stilwell
Berrill
Charles N. Hunter
Col
Hunter
Ogburn
Rediscovery Travels With Charley by Steinbeck
John Steinbeck recounts a 1960 road trip with his poodle Charley across America in a camper truck. The memoir notes impressions from Maine to Montana and Texas to New Orleans, with humor and Steinbeck’s reflective gaze on home and national life.
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Charley
John Steinbeck
Viking
America
Steinbeck
Downeast
Maine
Montana
California
Kalinnikov Story Highlights Ideas and Music
Rachmaninoff recalls Kalinnikov as a starving composer whose widow needed a tombstone fund. He notes a publisher profited more after the composer’s death and stresses that music rests on ideas plus feeling rather than mere sound. Also announced are world premieres at Lincoln Center from Sept 23 to 30 by Piston and Cowell, with Etler and de Falla works also listed.
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Don Cossak Choir
Vassili Kalinnikov
Rachmaninoff
Kalinnikov
Madison Avenue
New York City
New York
Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts
Walter Piston
Eugene Ormandy
Philadelphia Orchestra
Ormandy
Henry Cowell
the Center
Lincoln Center
Alvin Etler
Manuel de Falla
Bookmobile Schedule for High Point Public Library Week
Public library bookmobile routes listed for Aug 6 to Aug 10 with daily stops at College Village Shopping Center Pine Valley Marywood Oak View Woodview Bridges Futrelle Ingleside Westover Oak View Parkside Clover Tabor Dayton EF College Hedrick Ashe Oakwood Ridgecrest W Springfield Dane Wynnewood Rockford Ragan Thissell Franklin Worth Clara Cox Circle Willard Gordon Elwood Wendell Daniel Brooks Homes.
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High Point Public Library
College Village
Pine Valley
Marywood
Oak View
Woodview
Futrelle
Ingleside
Westover
Old Winston Road
Parkside
Clover
Tabor
Dayton
FE. Lexington
EF. College
Hedrick
Ashe
Oakwood
Rotary
Ridgecrest
W. Springfield
Dane
Wynnewood
Rockford
Ragan
Thissell
Franklin
Worth
Clara Cox
Willard
Gordon
Elwood
Wendell
Daniel Brooks
River and the Wilderness Civil War Novel Review
Don Robertson’s River and the Wilderness, a 764 page Civil War novel from Doubleday, surveys brutal combat and human psychology with a modern tone. Major George Peters, actress Henrietta Blackstone, Nancy and Indiana farmer Henry Ferris, Confederate colonel Hard Andy DeLong, Phyllis, and Marlin Slocum populate a sweeping tale of fear, courage, boredom, and irony.
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Don Robertson
Doubleday
George Peters
West Point
Henrietta Blackstone
George
Nancy
Henry Ferris
Henry
Hard Andy DeLong
Virginia
Phyllis
Marlin Slocum
Robertson
Britisher Says People Our Biggest Attraction
London AP reports British tourists are drawn to the United States by officials advertising tours for about 35 pounds a week. Vincent Mulchrone of the Daily Mail praises Americans while noting his own trip cost about $22 a day on average. He visited Miami Alabama New Orleans Great Smoky National Park Washington and New York.
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London
United States
Vincent Mulchrone
Mulchrone
Britain
Taj Mahal
America
U.S
U.S.A
The
Daily Mail
Miami
Alabama
New Orleans
Great Smoky National Park
Tennessee
Washington
New York
Daily Express
Peter Evans
Williamsburg
Bourbon Street
Marriage A Thousand Springs by Anna Chennault
A brief note on the book’s focus on the marriage of Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault and Anna Chennault. It describes Chennault as a pioneering air power advocate and father of the 14th Air Force and CAT airline, while outlining their differing backgrounds and ages.
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Anna Chennault
Paul S. Eriksson
Claire Chennault
14Th Air Force
CAT
China
Chennault
Eisenhower to stay at Turnberry Castle in Scotland
Eisenhower arrives August 15 for a five day visit to Turnberry Scotland. He will use the two golf courses and may fish. Culzean Castle tops the list as his lifelong home gift from Scotland. Central heating will be boosted by the National Trust to ease a chill from earlier visits.
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Turnberry
Scotland
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
Eisenhower
Culzean Castle
National Trust
Self Revealing Letters of James Agee 70 Father Frye
Miles A. Smith reviews a collection of personal letters by James Agee written to his Episcopal priest mentor Father Frye. The letters reveal Agee’s self-doubt and artistic longing, set against a career in journalism and film writing, and ponder what might have been.
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James Agee
Father Flye
Braziller
Agee
Frye
Father Frye
Miles A. Smith
Best Sellers List Highlights Fiction Classics
Current best sellers feature Ship of Fools Porter Youngblood Hawke Wouk Dearly Beloved Lindbergh The Reivers Faulkner The Prize Wallace The Rothschilds Morton My Life in Court Nizer The Guns of August Tuchman Calories Don't Count Taller Conversations with Stalin Dijilas.
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Porter
Youngblood Hawke
Wouk
Lindbergh
Faulkner
Wallace
Morton
Nizer
Tuchman
Stalin
Dijilas
Vidal Rocking the Boat review and notes on essays
A critical sketch of Vidal's collection Rocking the Boat by Gore Vidal from Little, Brown priced at $5. It highlights his politics as two groups conservatives and reactionaries and praises his smart witty tone. It notes essays on books stage and politics, including Barry Goldwater: A Chat.
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Gore Vidal
Little, Brown
Bright Boys of American Letters
Vidal
Algonquin Round Table
Barry Goldwater
Showdown In Brazil Faces Off Over Presidential Powers
In Rio de Janeiro President Joao Goulart clashes with Congress over restoring powers to the presidency. The looming standoff raises fears of renewed crisis, labor strikes, or military intervention as beans and rice shortages underscore public distress and political instability.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Joao Goulart
Brazilian Congress
Goulart
Janio Quadros
Rica
Brasilia
After Nehru Leaves Power What Then
New Delhi AP reports growing talk of Nehru’s succession as illness narrows his grip on India’s leadership. Possible successors include Morarji Desai Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi as observers weigh future direction and regional stability.
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New Delhi
India
Nehru
Jawaharlal Neh
Krishna Menon
Desai
Congress Party
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Indira Gandhi
Kerala
Shastri
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