It’s A Table Plus Steps from 18th Century Library
The mahogany table from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection functions as a table and unfolds into library steps. This dual purpose piece showcases clever 18th century design blending utility with furniture craft.
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Cooper Union Displays Museum Treasures At City Center
A selection from the Cooper Union museum, to be revived in a new location, is shown at the New York Cultural Center. The exhibit covers 18th and 19th century furniture, textiles, jewelry, and wallpapers, arranged by Donald Karshan to illustrate varied design across centuries. The Cooper Hewitt museum originated from the 1897 bequest and the Carnegie Mansion restoration is planned, expanding space and programs for decorative arts and design.
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Book Review: Former Times Chief Recalls His News Career
Turner Catledge’s memoir traces his rise from boyhood to entry into newspapers, his Washington years, and finally his NYTimes executive era. It notes rivalries, updating a tradition bound paper, and Catledge’s statesmanlike tone as he discusses staff, coverage, and influence.
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Poetry contest details and university press bio noted
News about Books News about Books by Robert Marks lists entries for the North Carolina Poetry Society annual contest with a midnight April 1 deadline. Six categories with three prizes each plus cups for first place, honorable mentions, and publication in Award-Winning Poems. S. L. McKay chairs. sections include NC student and children poetry categories. The Long View Journal winter issue features North Carolina writers including Doris Betts, Irene Cheshire, and Guy Owen. Topping UNC Press spring list is a biography of O Max Gardner by Joseph L. Morison.
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Last Carolina University
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Sanford
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Raleigh
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Washington
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Chapel Hill
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W. J. Cash
Dealing a slangy trip from Berkeley to Boston novel
A hip pot world novel about a Harvard bound courier named Peter Harkness dealing marijuana from Berkeley to Boston. He roams with rich John, falls for Sukie, and faces a crooked narcotics bust while trying to rescue Sukie with 40 bricks of pot on the line.
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Peter
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Michael Crichton
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Military Dilemmas and a Rogue Intel Officer in Asia
In James Reston Jr s Military Dilemmas Lt Bartlett is trained in Army intelligence assigned to the Far East Formosa Hawaii and Japan He recruits a Chinese agent to spy on China but disaster follows He grows doubtful about Vietnam and sympathizes with radicals in Tokyo leading to a betrayal of his unit after a friend's Vietnam death
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Veteran Spy Views Crisis
P L Thyraud de Vassoli known as Lamia recounts 20 years in French intelligence from Europe to the Far East. He details involvement in Indo China Cuba Bay of Pigs and Cuban missile crises while criticizing the Bay of Pigs disaster and arguing for a stronger U S response.
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