Books News Highlights With Travel Guides and Awards
An estimated 20,000 American tourists will visit Russia in 1960. Irving R. Levine's TRAVEL GUIDE TO RUSSIA offers tips on meals, purchases, contacts, photography, and embassy assistance. Marjorie Fischer wins 1959 Lippincott Fiction Contest for MRS SHERMAN'S SUMMER. George Washington's Navy by William Bell Clark is set for release. Pearl S Buck receives the Constance Lindsay Skinner Award in New York.
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Russia
Irving R. Levine
Doubleday
Soviet Union
Levine
Moscow
Lenin
Stalin
Kiev
Odessa
Tbilisi
Samarkand
Bukhara
National Broadcasting Co
Main Street
Ussr
Marjorie Fischer
Lippincott
Mrs. Sherman
Long Island
New Yorker
Rolfe Humphries
MacDowell Colony
Peterborough
N.H
George Washington
Louisiana State University Press
William Bell Clark
Boston
Clark
Pearl S. Buck
Constance Lindsay Skinner
New York
Woman's National Book Association
Irene in Rome A Postwar Tale of Love and Class
A vivid portrait follows Irene in postwar Rome as she navigates class bounds, family disapproval, and romantic entanglements. Her sisters Adriana and Marta, mother, lovers Maurizio Pietro and others, and servant Erminia shape a delicate weaving of money pride and longing. The narrative hints at Irene’s newspaper work and a piercing search for love.
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Rome
Irene
Adriana
Marta
Maurizio
Pietro
Erminia
Gertrude Stein
Anna
Baltimore
Rip Van Winkles THE HIDING PLACE
Robert Shaw portrays Connolly and Wilson trapped in a Bonn cellar by Hans Frick in 1942 after a brutal parachute attack. The narrative follows their endless confinement, personal yearnings, and Frick s unstable moral descent as war memories blend with present captivity.
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Bonn
Connolly
Wilson
Hans Frick
Frick
Germany
Rip van Winkles
Shaw
Power Of Suggestion THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY review
Flannery O'Connor's new novel depicts Tarwater a 14 year old with a dead great uncle and a plan to bury him. The story follows Tarwater and Meekins as they navigate faith family and violence in a stark rural setting.
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Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Tarwater
Miss O'Connor
Buford
Meekins
Rayber
Solve-A-Crime Solution Pat Duncan's Involvement Investigated
Pat Duncan appears as the only plausible listener to Benner's phone call with Weber and may have reached Benner's house within five minutes, suggesting potential involvement in the incident.
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Pat Duncan
Benner
Weber
World Cruise On A Familiar Boat
Critic Dick Bickerton reviews Frances Malm's first novel a 522 page travelogue about twelve people on an around the world cruise. He finds a formulaic plot featuring a young wife and an older husband a divorcee named Kathryn Dwan and Abel Bronson with an affair and a fatal bolt from the rails. The reviewer notes travelogue sections and questions the melodramatic conclusion framed by a shipboard romance.
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Frances Malm
Doubleday & Co
Kathryn Dwan
Miss Malm
Dick Bickerton
Unsinkable Mrs Brown to Debut in Philadelphia before Broadway
Preparations underway for The Unsinkable Mrs Brown a new musical comedy set to premiere in Philadelphia this September before transferring to Broadway. Producers Dove Schary and Theater Guild have begun star casting as author Richard Morris and composer Meredith Wilson finalize rehearsals. The plot follows a Titanic survivor who climbs from a chambermaid to high society.
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New York
Mrs. Brown
Philadelphia
Broadway
Dove Schary
Theater Guild
Star Players
Richard Morris
Meredith Wilson
Niagara Falls Water Flow Measured At 23 Million Tons Hourly
A historic notice records that more than 23 million tons of water pass over Niagara Falls each hour, highlighting the vast scale of the river’s discharge and the force of the cascading water.
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Niagara Falls
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High Point, N. C
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