Talkers Waiter by Sidney Offit creates a comic debut
Baltimore born Sidney Offit writes a first novel about a waiter's lonely longing for big tips deals and love set at a plush mountain resort akin to Grossinger's and the Concord. The author, a trained observer of the zany world of genifs tumb lers and nudniks, delivers sharp comic detail.
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Sidney Offit
Crown
Voltaire
Caskill Mountain
Grossinger
Concord
Offit
Books in Brief: Langelaan The Masks of War and Other Picks
Langelaan’s The Masks of War recounts WWII espionage with real people and peril, while Our Christmas Story by Mrs. Billy Graham adapts biblical history for children. Aimez Vous Brahms by Sagan, Cockrell’s The Barren Beaches of Hell, and radio and TV humor records round out a mixed literary and media preview featuring Langelaan, Graham, Sagan, Offit, and Shepherd.
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George Langelaan
Paris
Doubleday
Langelaan
France
Belgium
Dunkirk
England
Europe
Woman In Red
Pyrenees
Spain
Jim Morris
Albert
America
Billy Graham
Thomas Nelson & Sons
Ruth
Francoise Sagan
Aimez-Vous Brahms
Brahms
E. P. Dutton & Co
Peter Wiles
Sagan
Dutton
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Alexander King
King
Gabriel
Jean Shepherd
Elektra
Shepherd
Beat Generation
Blood and Guts
Gene Kelly
James Stewart
White Sox
Decca Records
Brian Donlevy
Frederick March
Agnes Moorehead
Bing Crosby
Pat O’brien
Walter Huston
Paul Revere
Sheridan
Protest Graveyard by Marek Hlasko
A Communist narrator is booked after a minor incident and fears disloyalty accusations. The tale follows Kowalski’s disillusionment as comrades from an underground movement crumble. He seeks self discovery amid a state without justice and ends with a defiant act.
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Marek Hlasko
Dutton
Franciszek Kowalski
Kowalski
Hlasko
Arthur Koestler
The Quick Rich Fox
Isa bella Taves crafts a satirical Hollywood tale where power players wield masks and ambition. Bert Irving, dying head of a major studio, plots to milk Donia the Red Riding Hood for a life story while a web of desire and deceit unfolds across Manhattan.
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Isabella Taves
Random House
Manhattan
Bert Irving
Hollywood
Doris Livingston
Bert
Donia
Red Riding Hood
Case Clark
Miss Taves
Matter Of Mind Free Associations Memoirs of a Psychoanalyst
Ernest Jones, early Welsh neurologist and biographer of Freud, narrates in progress on his autobiography and Freud’s circle. The piece notes Jones’s roles in psychoanalysis and his approach of Free Associations as a method, with reflections on his career, personal life, and legacy.
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Ernest Jones
Basic Books, Inc
Sigmund Freud
Vienna
Freud
International Psychoanalytical Assn
American Psychoanalytical Assn
Dr. Jones
Srtic
Jones
Wales
London
Canada
United States
Values Human Nature And The Human Condition
Jo seph Wood Krutch argues contemporary society is in a parlous state due to five moral relativisms at the root of Western malaise. He critiques education, credit, advertising, and the homogenizing acceptance of mediocrity while defending older humanistic values and offering a conservative, controversial doctrinal stance.
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Random House
Pittle
Krutch
Thoreau
Emerson
Jefferson
Best Sellers and Innovations Highlighted in Page Content
The list covers fiction and nonfiction works by Uris Lawrence Heller Led erer Burdick Paster nak Caldwell Packard Thurber Gold en Nickerson Strunk and a note on an automatic bleach dispenser for washing machines detailing its capacity and dispensing gauge for full loads.
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Exodus
Uris
Lady Chatterley
Lawrence
Lederer & Burdick
Doctor Zhivago
Pasternak
Caldwell
Packard
Ross
Thurber
Readers find meeting with a rare, kind, intelligent man
The passage notes thatFreud and became famous through patient readers who defer analysis to others. The meeting with a rare kindly and intelligent human proves to be as stimulating as expected for armchair commentators.
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Tinian
Bony
Cockrell
Cochrell
Tokyo
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William
Bronson
Lustre Sheen Service
Star
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