Carl Sandburg Day marked in North Carolina and Winds
Carl Sandburg, born in Illinois and a Flat Rock resident, turns 85 as North Carolina and Winds observe Sandburg Day on January 6. The event coincides with the release of his 35th book, Honey and Salt, a 77 poem collection from Harcourt Brace World, and features a New York City birthday tribute. Sandburg, a two time Pulitzer winner, has been honored with schools named after him, honorary degrees, and a literary shrine at his Galesburg home.
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Carl Sandburg
North Carolina
Lincoln
Illinois
Flat Rock
Hendersonville
Harcourt, Brace & World
Sandburg
New York City
Harvard
Yale
New York University
Dartmouth
Lombard College
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Poetry Society
University of Iinois
Father Child Memoirs in Two Novels by Carl Ewald
A Danish tale by Carl Ewald, translated by Beth Bolling, presents two linked child portraits. A boy learns harsh adult lessons, while a girl traverses adolescence and first loves, with a father guiding and confessing. The volume contrasts youth and parental insight across four decades.
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Ewald
Beth Bolling
Travelogue Those Americans by Mikhailov and Kossenko
A critical review of a two week 1958 Soviet tour depicted in the book Travelogue Those Americans. The work twists American life into Soviet propaganda with staged conversations and dubious statistics. It exposes how editors in Moscow doctored impressions to fit a party line while noting sharp observations about American society.
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N. Mikhailov
Z. V. Kossenko
Henry Regnery Co
America
Moscow
New York
Washington
Chicago
Niagara Falls
Pentagon
Little Rock
West Virginia
Madison Avenue
Russia
High Point Bookmobile Schedule Week of December 10 14
The High Point Public Library outlines the bookmobile routes for Monday through Friday. Stations include College Village Shopping Center Gatewood Emery Road Hillcrest Overbrook Emerywood Kennedy Carr Rotary Westwood Otteray Rotary Rock Spring Road Eaton Place Brantley Circle W Farriss Hedrick Ashe English Oak Wood Ridgecrest W Springfield Dane Wynnewood Rockford Ragan Street This Sell Street Franklin Street Worth Ave Clara Cox Circle Willard Street Gordon Street Edwood Wendell Street.
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High Point Public Library
College Village
Council
Gatewood
Emery Rd
Hillcrest
Overbrook
Emerywood
Kennedy
Carr
Rotary
Westwood
Otteray
Rockspring Road
Eaton Place
Brantley Circle
W. Farriss
Hedrick
Ashe
English Street
Oakwood
Ridgecrest
W. Springfield
Dane
Wynnewood
Rockford Road
Ragan
Willard Street
Gordon Street
Edwood Street
Wendell Street
Battle HARM'S WAY by James Bassett review
World critic hails this Pacific War novel focusing on Rockwell Torrey a silver-eagle captain turned two star admiral. Through sacrifice, romance, and sharp naval action it portrays a gripping authentic world at Pearl Harbor and beyond with living, fallible heroes.
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Harm’s Way
James Bassett
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Rockwell
Rock) Torrey
Navy
Bassett
Collective Power THE AGE OF OVERKILL review
Max Lerner’s survey dissecting postwar nuclear dilemmas argues for a balanced world law backed by collective force. It outlines five forces shaping the new order and a three-front strategy to curb war through disarmament talks, global political negotiation, and precedent for collective action.
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Max Lerner
Simon & Schuster
Churchill
United Nations
Lerner
Buchan and related titles shine in new paperback batch
A digest of recent Pen gun reprint titles highlights John Buchan's spy fiction with Richard Hannay and the High Lands trio. Also includes poetry in translation from Egyptian love verse by Pound and de Rachewiltz, plus Ben Jonson and Sir Walter Raleigh poems. World affairs volumes review future dynamics and regional politics with multiple authors. Plays feature five dramas of selfhood from Delta Books. Maurice Dolbier praises the collection.
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John Bucnan
Buchan
Pengun
Richard Hannay
Middle East
Greenmantle
Glasgow
Dickson McGunn
Gay
House OF the Four Winds
Edward Leithen
John Macnab
Highlands
Boris de Rachewiltz
Milan
Noel Stock
Mr. de Rachewiltz
Ezra Pound
Egypt
New Directions
The
Muses Library
Ben Jonson
George Burke Johnston
Harvard University Press
Sir Walter Raleigh
Agnes Latham
Robert W. Corrigan
Tulane Drama Review
Delta Books
NEW Theatre OF Europe
Maurice Dolbier
Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty reviewed
Ronald C. Hood praises Dw mas Malone s multi volume biography Jefferson and His Time. The new volume covers Washington s second administration to the 1800 election as Jefferson becomes president. Hood lauds Malone s thorough information, evenhanded judgment, and credible handling of Hamiltonian conflicts, predicting two more volumes and continued support from Guggenheim and the Jefferson Foundation.
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Malone
Jefferson
Potomac
James
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Sage
Monticello
the Rights of Man
Guggenheim Foundation
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Ronald C. Hood
Boston One Boy's Boston 1887 1801 Review
Morison’s memoir outlines a Boston boyhood amid Gay Nineties gentility. The author, a Boston blue-blood, defends Brahmins but catalogues many school-minded relatives in Massachusetts genealogies. The volume reads as nostalgic, entertaining, and wistful for a vanished era.
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Boston
Samuel Eliot Morison
Houghton Mifflin
Morison
Massachusetts
Z. Melnikov
Music Notes on great works and modern dining concerts
A discussion of great music elevating the soul and civic values, remarks on Amahl and the Night Visitors on radio, live performance at Memorial Auditorium December 18, and a dining hour trend with live classical concerts. It also profiles Prokofieff and his works, and announces Paul Hickfang’s recital at Woman’s College Greensboro before a Winston-Salem Symphony Concert in March.
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Confucius
Amahl
Night Visitors
J. Fryhover
High Point College
Fine Arts
Memorial Auditorium
America
Town Hall
Carnegie Recital Hall
Prokofieff
Tanieff
St. Petersburg
Liadov
Rimsky - Korsakov
Tcherepnine
Peter and the Wolf
Paul Hickfang
Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra
John Tuele
High Point College Memorial Auditorium
Hickfang
Woman’s College
Greensboro
Best Sellers Fiction and Nonfiction List
The best sellers include fiction titles such as A Shade of Difference by Drury, Seven Days in May by Knebel and Bailey, Fail-Safe by Burdick and Wheeler, Ship of Fools by Porter, The Prize by Wallace, and nonfiction works Silent Spring by Carson, Travels with Charley by Steinbeck, O Ye Jigs and Juleps by Hudson, My Life in Court by Nizer, and The Rothschilds by Morton.
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Drury
Knebel and Bailey
Burdick and Wheeler
Porter
Wallace
Carson
Charley
Steinbeck
Hudson
Court
Nizer- the Rothschilds
Morton
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Travelogue
Lapp
Teller
Oppenheimer
Snow
Fromm
Russell
Hook
Kahn
Waskow
Cousins
Halloo
St. George Society
Mufti
New World
Police
Gression
Machiavelli
Marx
Freud
Edison Marshall
Alexander the Great
Doubleday
Augusta
Georgia
Robert L. Hell
Broner
Evergreen
Grove Press
Hugh Tinker
India
Pakistan
Praeger
Maurice Harari
Spectrum Books
Prentice-Hall
Ronald Segal
Penguin Original
Jefferson and the Ordeal OF Liberty
Dwmas Malone
Little, Brown
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