Bookman examines The Making of the President 1960
Theodore H. White’s The Making of the President 1960 surveys the 1960 election from the primaries to the final results. It analyzes candidate personas, labor and ethnic influences, religious issues, and the changing social economy shaping voter choices. White’s balanced portrait invites readers to reflect on their citizen role.
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Theodore H. White
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Nixon
Kennedy
Gov
Rockefeller
White
China
Jolly HIS OWN MAN a Martha Gellhorn novel review
Martha Gellhorn’s Jolly His Own Man centers on Ben Eckhardt a mid thirties American in Paris who discovers founda tion scholarships and a hedonistic elite circle. He enters a romance with Jessica de Camberges and is drawn into wealth spongers and idle thrill seekers aided by Liz Langham before Jessica’s revenge leaves him truly “his own man.”
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Ben Eckhardt
Sorbonne
Paris
Chance
Jessica de Camberges
Jolly
Liz Langham
Creeps
Ben
Jessica
Slavery Persists in Central Nepal Despite Ban
Government official Manmohan Misra says slave trading remains common in central Nepal. He reports dozens of cases and says slaves often work for the same families for generations with pitiable conditions. Two owners received unspecified punishment as a warning to others.
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Katmandu
Nepal
Manmohan Misra
Supervision and Inspection Commission
Misra
Venezuelan University to pay for ambassador car
The Central University of Venezuela will cover the cost of a black Cadillac burned by leftist students during a visit by U.S. Ambassador Teodoro Moscoso. Rector Francisco de Venanzi announced the settlement on Wednesday.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Central University of Venezuela
U.S
Teodoro Moscoso
Moscoso
Francisco de Venanzi
Girl on Horse and Five Brave Horses
Sonora Craver’s high diving horse act is recalled from the 1923 stage show in North Carolina venues. The book follows her training in Durham, her decline to total blindness, a secret kept then shared to inspire courage, romance, and tragedy among horses and companions.
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Sonora Craver, Doubleday & Co, Inc
Sonora Craver
Lexington
Durham
Charlotte
Craver
Elizabeth Land
Sonora
Notable 1950s Biographies and Novels Set for Fall Releases
A rundown of upcoming books highlights Car son McCullers first novel in nine years CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS and biographies such as W A Swanberg CITIZEN HEARST and SINCLAIR LEWIS AN AMERICAN LIFE. Other titles span historical fiction by Monsarrat and Mason, and Morrow Paris works including NEVIL SHUTE STEPHEN MORRIS and HOLY WEEK set in 1815 France.
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New York
Carson McCullers
Houghton Mifflin
Nicholas Monsarrat
Sloane
China
France
Putnam
Louis Aragon
W. A. Swanberg
Citizen Hearst
Scribners
William Randolph Hearst
Mark Scherer
Sinclair Lewis
McGraw - Hill
Nellie Melba
Joseph Wechsberg
Little, Brown
Churchill
John Spencer Churchill
Sir Winston
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harper
Montherlant's The Bachelors And Selected Essays In English
Two works by Henry de Montherlant are released in the United States by Macmillan. The Bachelors, a novel about two aging French nobles, and Selected Essays, translating writings from 1920 onward, aim to introduce the author to American readers with new translations and introductions.
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France
United States
Macmillan Co
Henry de Montherlant
French Academy
Montherlant
Macmillan
Terance Kilmartin
Peter Quennell
England
Andre
John Weightman
Boy paints snakes for friends in Rockford
Mrs Irene Schatzer reported two color painted snakes in her yard in Rockford Illinois Deputies traced the paint job to 14 year old Ronald Hale who admitted running a booming snake painting operation He has since stopped painting snakes and selling them to friends.
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Rockford, Ill
Irene Schatzer
Sheriff's Office
Hale
Ronald Hale
Ronald
Amusing EAST 57TH STREET review
Alan R. Jackson reviews Simon & Schuster novel Light as froth about Manhattan types on East 57th Street. Marty Benson and Chick Remick chase romance while satirizing television and movies and spoofing double crosses with light humor.
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East 57Th Street
Alan R. Jackson
Simon & Schuster
Manhattan
Marty Benson
Chick Remick
57Th Street
Ex spy advises on secrecy at Niagara Falls talk
Daniel T. Moore, a World War II OSS spy, told Niagara Falls listeners that the first rule of spy warfare is never tell your own people more than they need to know. He cautioned that future battles could hinge on today’s spies.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Daniel T. Moore
OSS
John Knox
Union Theological Seminary
Best Sellers and Notable Works List
A catalog of fiction and nonfiction titles including The Agony and the Ecstasy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mila 18, The Edge of Sadness, The Carpetbaggers, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Ring of Bright Water, A Nation of Sheep, President 1960, and The New English Bible.
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Stone
Mila
Urs
Skirer
Maxwell
Scroungy Ship MASTER OF THIS VESSEL
A dramatic sea tale by GWYN Griffin about Serafina Ciccolanti a young Italian officer aboard the San Roque carrying emigrants to Australia. He faces mutiny cyclone and misfortune as crew fear and loyalty collide aboard the Panamanian flagged ship.
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Serafina Ciccolanti
South America
San Roque
Australia
Roger Lamfranc
Ciccolanti
Guido Bressan
Lamnfranc
Bressan
Griffin
Conrad
Melville
Bookmobile Schedule for High Point Public Library Week
The High Point Public Library releases a weekly bookmobile itinerary for Aug 7 to Aug 11. Stops include College Village Shopping Center Pine Valley Marywood Oakview Woodview Bridges Futrelle Kennedy Carr Rotary Westwood Oleray Eaton Place Brantley Circle Hedrick Ashe Oakwood Ridgecrest Dane Rockford Thissell Clara Cox Homes Clara Cox Circle Willard Gordon Ellwood Wendell Daniel Brooks Homes with multiple daily time slots.
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High Point Public Library
College Village
Pine Valley
Marywood
Oakview
Woodview
Bridges
Futrelle
Kennedy
Carr
Rotary
Westwood
Oleray
Rockspring Road
Eaton Place
Brantley Circle
W. Farriss
Hedrick
Ashe
Oakwood
Ridgecrest
Springfield Road
Dane
Rolling
Rockford
Ragan
Thissell
Clara Cox
Willard
Gordon
Ellwood
Wendell
Daniel Brooks
Motoring Fine Fracas In Raleigh Surges With Odd Payments
A Raleigh AP report describes motorists sending unusual payments for parking fines. One man mailed 100 pennies glued together in tape, while another stapled a dollar bill to a ticket with 100 staples. Betty Aiken of the City Revenue Department recalls the incidents.
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Raleigh, N.C
Betty Aiken
City Revenue Department
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Simon and Schuster
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Birds OF Prey
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Maurice Wilson
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By Miles A. Smith
AP Arts
B. J. Chute
Dutton
Greenwillow
George Johnston
Morrow
John Selby
Madame
Dodd, Mead
God
A. J
Cronin
Nevil Shute
Stephen Morris
Lin Yutang
Oirs
Shadow OF the Mountain
van Wyck Brooks
Virgilia Peterson
Atheneum
Will Durant
Edward Streeter
Rostov Bridge
Marion Aten
Arthur Orrmont
Messner
Aten
Ernest Hemingway
Leicester Hemingway
World Publishing Co
Hemingway
Burton Bernstein
THE
GROVE
McGraw-Hill
Massachusetts
Sharon
Lake Massasoit
the Grove
Lillian Hellman
New Yorker
Bernstein
Marty
Stella Pearce
Chick
Kaki Sachs
Mia
Erer
Gwyn Griffin
Holt, Rinehart, Winston
GML TE
New Testament Straughan’'s
N. Main St
High Point, N. C
Grand Army of the Republic
Savings and Loan Foundation, Inc
LIFE
Saturday Evening Post
College Street
Piedmont
West Washington
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