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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1955
Page
20
Georgia Cox reviews Machlis The Enjoyment of Music noting its strengths in explaining musical materials and modern trends. The volume covers tonal form periods and American music with extensive reading lists and a chart of instruments and scales.
A private investigator and the author recount their failed venture into a mail order batch of so called risqué comic booklets. The flaw is not indecency but shoddiness and gullibility as they expose the corny jokes and racy yet tame cartoons printed in the Prohibition era style.
Two newly cut channels form on either side of the Assateague Coast Guard Station in Virginia as rough seas punch through the coastline. Lifeboat station reported no damage as channels run about 50 feet from the south tip area amid storm conditions. A reporter witnessed the event during the passage of the storm.
Potatoes facing a large surplus led growers from 22 states to urge removal of culls and ungraded lots from sale. The National Potato Council sponsored the meeting, with W. B. Whitley stating farmers should keep most substandard potatoes off the market. A long range plan will be developed and presented at an upcoming national conference in Chicago on November 28–29.
Edith Simon presents The Twelve Pictures a prose rendering of the Niebelungenlied linking history and literature. The monumental work traces a heroic epic from the Dark Ages through to modern readers with epic scale and scholarly framing.
The biography Victor Herbert by Edward Waters is praised for a thorough study of the composer’s concert career and operettas. It uses reviews, programs, letters, and interviews to present Herbert as a serious musician and influential American figure worthy of definitive status. Georgia Cox reviews the work.
Bruce Lancaster's American Revolt from Leningoon to Liberty is praised for accessible prose and solid historical detail. The reviewer notes emphasis on lesser known campaigns such as Canada and Burgoyne's New York defeat, and highlights claims that Washington won by strategic retreat as well as by direct action.
Four years after WWI the scene shifts to postwar fiction. Helen MelInnis presents a treasure hunt set in Germany with American Bill Downey. May Sarton explores liberal disloyalty in Harvard era. Miller Brand probes urban American psychology through Cathy and her family. Enid Bagnold features two novellas about love, birth, and wartime France.
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