Gardner shaped North Carolina politics and education
A retrospective on C Max Gardner of Shelby tracing his governorship from 1928 to 1932 through economic crisis, labor disputes, and university consolidation. It notes the Shelby dynasty influence, his post governorship work, and the lasting reforms in elections, roads, schools, and taxation, plus personal tragedy and death.
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North Carolina
C. Max Gardner
Shelby
Zebulon B. Vance
Charles B. Aycock
W. Kerr Scott
Gardner
Shelby Dynasty
Joseph W. Morrison
Max Gardner
Morrison
Miss Fay
University of North Carolina
Cleveland County
C. P. Gardner
Gardners
Webbs
Blantons
Roysters
Youngs
Hamricks
Wrays
Suttles
McBrayers
Furnifold M. Simmons
Gastonia
Marion
High Point
Thomasville
University System
Roosevelt
Washington
Fay Lamar Webb
Boiling Springs Junior College
Gardner- Webb College
United States
New York City
England
Lassiter's Folly by Nathaniel Benchley
Review of Lassiter's Folly set along the Inland Waterway near Georgia and Carolina. Rich heir Lassiter aims to wipe out poverty by building a tourist town with a golf course and jetport. Locals resist as a mortgaged boatyard operator joins the dissenters amid humorous satire.
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Benchley
New England
Atlantic Seaboard
Georgia-Carolina
Lassiter
Mariposa
Beastly Inventions by Jean Craighead George
A lively survey of animal senses and adaptations from protozoa to mammals. Notable examples include hawk vision, bat sonar, catfish smell and taste, squid lights, and a ventriloquist bird. Illustrations accompany profiles of travel, mating, homes, care of young, camouflage, and environments.
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Jean Craighead
George McKay
George
Animal Kingdom
Sunday Crossword Puzzle By Hume R. Craft ACROSS
The item notes a Sunday crossword puzzle by Hume R. Craft with the Across clues. No further readable details or filled entries are present in the fragment.
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By Hume R. Craft
The Great GBS Autobiography Shaw Playwright Years Review
A two volume appraisal of George Bernard Shaw via Stanley Weintraub’s selections. The book blends writings from 1898 to 1950, offering sharp insights into Shaw’s craft and radical Fabian era views while questioning whether juxtaposed pieces reveal true self.
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Shaw
Stanley Weintraub
Weybright
Talley
George Bernard Shaw
Weintraub
Pennsylvania State University
Fabians
Father and Daughter Abduction in Goldman Novel
Amos McCracken a Broadway songwriter with a failing career faces a fractured marriage and custody dispute. On a Father’s Day at a private school he abducts his six year old daughter Jessica after an accident and spirals into fantasies while fleeing to press for more time with her.
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Amos McCracken
Jessica
Amos
Goldman
Harriman’s Diplomatic Journey Across a Turbulent Era
W Averell Harriman recounts contacts with Trotsky in the 1920s and as ambassador to Moscow, noting a path through Stalin Khrushchev Kosygin and the Paris talks with North Vietnam. The book blends lectures and reflections, praising some leaders while criticizing Molotov Dulles and Thieu.
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Harriman
Trotsky
Caucasus
Moscow
Stalin
Khrushchev
Kosygin
Paris
Lehigh University
Churchhill
Molotov
Dulles
Washington
Thieu
Saigon
Rural Poverty in Appalachia The Hollow review
Bill Surface portrays life in a Kentucky holler through Coy and June and their ten children in a filthy rented shack. The book depicts welfare dependence, poor nutrition, unsanitary conditions, and resistance to education with vivid dialogue and five days of narrative in a grim but immersive microcosm.
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Surface
Appalachia
Kentucky
Coy
June
Book titles and authors listed in a mixed author index
A catalog style entry listing varied literary works and authors such as QB VII Uris Love Story and Inside the Third Reich Speer, reflecting a broad reading compilation. The line pairs many classical and modern titles with authors including Hemingway Shaw Christie Toffler and Reidh in a dense reference style.
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Uris
Hemingway
Shaw
Frankfurt
Christie
Marital Strains in Suburban Britain
In a prosperous suburb Clive Len drick a wool firm executive and his wife Robin at 44 and 47 face drift in marriage. Robin rekindles an affair with Stephen a TV producer from years past while Clive pursues casual liaisons. Blaine who wrote Room at the Top returns to class themes.
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Clive Lendrick
Robin
Clive
Stephen
Blaine
Books To Bloom In Wide Variety
New spring listings emphasize variety with fiction on several themes and biographies plus social and political topics. Notable March titles include Angle of Repose and The Passions of the Mind, alongside Paradise and Queenie, while April adds The Drifters and The Barefoot Man with other works by Michener Grubb Shulman Murphy and Percy.
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New York
Wallace Stegner
Doubleday
West
Irving Stone
Sigmund Freud
Patrick Dennis
Harcourt
Acapulco
Hortense
April
James Michener
Random
Davis Grubb
Simon & Schuster
West Virginia
Max Shulman
Farrar, Straus
Robert Murphy
Walker Percy
Chester Bowles
Harper
David Halberstam
Ho Chi Minh
Marshal Zhukov
Delacorte
Schweitzer
George Marshall
David Poling
T. S. Eliot
Dodd, Mead
Eliot
Robert Sencourt
Jacqueline Kennedy
White House
Little, Brown
Mary van Rensselaer Thayer
M. Evans
Robert Marsh
Agnew
Clinton Rossiter
Harcourt Brace
Putnam
B. H. Liddell Hart
Easter Island
John Dog Passos
Telecaster
Walter Cronkite
Cowles
John Kenneth Galbraith
Houghton Mifflin
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Antheneum
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Houston
Burns
Doe
Clifford
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Iowa
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Gustave
Tennessee Ford
Abbr
Cena Aes Ohio
Thailand
Colleq
L. A
Horrow
Ceese
Earl
Nest
Serio
William Goldman
America
Russia
W. Averell Harriman
the Hollow
Bill Surface
Coward McCann
Reidh
Clark
Shhok
Toffler
Third Reich
Speer
Tower Hill
John Braine
Colisher
Queenie
Arbor House
High Point Road
Greensboro
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