Huey Long Murder Case reviewed by Hermann Deutsch
A book review discusses Hermann B. Deutschs THE HUEY LONG MURDER CASE Doubleday about Huey Longs assassination in Baton Rouge 1935. It notes Deutsch cites eyewitnesses and argues Dr Carl Weiss Jr acted as assassin while others blame bodyguards and notes the surgery and contested motives.
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Abraham Lincoln
William McKinley
Sen
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Long
Capitol Building
Baton Rouge
Oscar K. Allen
Our Lady of the Lake Sanitarium
Carl Austin Weiss Jr
Huey Long
Robert Penn Warren
Hermann B. Deutsch
Doubleday
New Orleans
Deutsch
Kingfish
Franklin Roosevelt
Senate
Roosevelt
Weiss
I Think Rome Is Burning by Cynthia Seton
A caustic witty memoir by a mother of five and Massachusetts columnist. Seton skewers consumer culture PTA and flag worship while offering thoughtful, humorous reflections on nuclear fears and daily survival in postwar household life. Patricia Kaplan praises its perspective and wit.
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Rome
Cynthia Seton
New York
Doubleday and Co
Massachusetts
PTA
Patricia Kaplan
Martha in Paris by Margery Sharp
In Paris Martha in Paris follows an 18 year old English girl with blunt sentences and an unusual appetite who discovers talent for drawing. The book offers a light satirical tone with minimal message and a sense of clever puppeteer wit behind sharp social observation.
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Martha
Paris
Margery Sharp
Little, Brown
Miss Sharp
Best Sellers List Highlights Classic Titles
The list spotlights fiction and nonfiction titles including Seven Days in May by Knebel and Bailey, Fail-Safe by Burdick and Wheeler, A Shade of Difference by Drury, The Sand Pebbles by McKenna, Madame Castel's Lodger by Keyes, Travels with Charley by Steinbeck, Silent Spring by Carson, Dyes Jigs and Juleps by Hudson, Final Verdict by St John, and Letters from the Earth by Twain.
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Knebel and Bailey
Burdick and
Wheeler
Drury
McKenna Madame Castel
Keyes
Charley
Steinbeck
Carson Dye
Hudson
St. John
Twain
New Salinger Books Raise High the Roof Beam and Seymour
Maurice Dolbier reviews J. D. Salinger’s Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, noting the pair of stories feature Buddy Glass narrating events from 1942 and 1948, with Salinger promising more Glass tales. The critique highlights Salinger’s evolving prose, the humorous sharp dialogue, and the shift in Buddy’s voice as his career and style change.
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Carpenters
Seymour
J. D. Salinger
Little, Brown SM
New Yorker
Seymour Glass
Buddy Glass
Buddy
New York
Upstate New York
Brother Seymour
Zooey
Maurice Dolbier
High Point Public Library Bookmobile Schedule February 18–22
The bookmobile visits College Village Shopping Center and several neighborhoods all week. Monday lists five stops including Pine Valley Road and Oak View Road. Tuesday to Friday add routes at Ingleside Westover Ridge Parkside Tabor Lin dale Gordon Cedrow locations and times.
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High Point Public Library
College Village
Pine Valley Road
Marywood
Oak View Road
Woodview
Bridges Street
Futrelle
Ingleside
Westover
Old Winston Road
Parkside
Clover
Tabor
Dayton
E. Lexington
E. College
Lindale
Locust
Gordon
Kimrey
Survival Here to Stay by John Hersey
A Knopf collection of nine stories by John Hersey detailing instinct to survive. It includes Hiroshima and accounts of JFK’s torpedo boat experience, a veteran’s return to civilian life, a combat soldier’s trauma, a frail woman in a flash flood, a roustabout’s rescue, and four essays on escape from oppression and death in Nazi camps.
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John Hersey
Knopf
Hersey
John F. Kennedy
Hungary
The Man And The Myth From Frost to the poet of the countryside
James Marlow surveys Robert Frost life, noting his stubborn permanence, mixed reception, and shift from New England farm life to a celebrated literary figure. He explores Frost as wit and skeptic, with enduring simple imagery and a controversial stance during New Deal years. Frost’s early farming failures, move to England, and peak in the 1920s frame his enduring legacy.
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Washington
Robert Frost
New England
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
Frost
Shakespeare
Sidney Cox
Cox
Ezra Pound
Amur
Theocritus
Virgil
Emerson
Thoreau
Plato
Sergeant
Hitler
Mussolini
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harvard
England
Robert Burns
Sir Walter Scott
Robert Herrick
Browning
George Meredith
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Longfellow
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Amherst
Stephen Crane
Theodore Dreiser
Edgar Lee Masters
Vachel Lindsay
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Frank Norris
Sherwood Anderson
New England Acres
Masters
Anderson
Arcadia
Vergil
Amy Lowell
James Marlow
Mutual Admiration Duet by Durrell and Miller
A private correspondence between Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller edited by George Wickes. The letters show mutual encouragement and tension, from Miller's piping up Durrell to criticism of Miller's work and censorship issues, with a cautious assessment of lasting literary value.
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Lawrence Durrell
Henry Miller
George Wickes
Dutton
Miller
Durrell
Paris
Big Sur
Calif
Mediterranean
Artley Scholarship for High School Flutists Named
The 1963 Artley Scholarship offers a study with James Pellerite at the Cha utauqua School of Music in Chautauqua New York from July 8 to August 23 with auditions closing May 15. A piano recital by Hans Heidemann at Salem College School of Music is set for tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. with works by Beethoven Schumann Debussy and Chopin.
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Artley
James Pellerite
Chautauqua School of Music
Chautauqua
N.Y
Hans Heidemann
Salem College School of Music
Beethoven
Schumann
Debussy
Chopin
Memorial Hall
High Point College
High Point College Chapel Choir
J. Fryhover
Singers’ Guild of Winston
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Leoncavallo
Musical Art Club
Josephine Dunbar
Miss Dunbar
High Point City Schools
Virginia Frank
Salem College
Winston-Salem
Leopold Stokowski
Washington, D.C
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Little Orchestra of
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