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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1956
Page
19
HPHS opens after a two week break with Pemican first 100 pages printed and 132 more due February 1. Miss Louise Tapp says more clubs this year and the annual will be the biggest yet as rehearsals begin for the Senior Play Life of the Party under Miss Ruth Goodman with performances February 24 and 25.
A contempt citation against actress Linda Christian was dismissed in the Purdoms divorce case. Miss Christian still may be deposed about a 1954 Mexico visit, as attorney Albert Pearlson plans another move. She was subpoenaed as she left the courtroom, with the July 11 deposition date set for the Purdom hearing.
Budd Schulberg’s Waterfront mixes past material with a shifted emphasis from longshoremen to the priest. The characters remain sketches yet vividly drawn in a harrowing harbor setting. The reviewer finds the book provocatively good though not brilliance, noting Schulberg’s steady craft.
Helen Keller praises Anne Sullivan Macy as a patient, fearless teacher who unlocked a full life for a deaf blind student. The book recounts Sullivan’s early poverty in Ireland, her breakthrough lessons with Keller, and their later advocacy for the blind, including travels with Polly Thomson after Sullivan’s death.
A spoof history by Leon Burnett catalogs a fictitious Cates family with flamboyant members such as Tiffy Cates Pon Tiffy and Prolify, tracing careers from surveyor Lo to congressman Allo and a Wild West gunfighter Ded I Cates. The piece parodies genealogy with colorful, improbable exploits.
A catalog listing many new library acquisitions across non fiction and fiction. Notable entries include The Truth About Divorce by Morris Proscowe A Guide to a Good Marriage by Richard Steiner How Far the Promised Land by White I Passed For White by Lee The Dark Eye in Africa by Laurens Van der Post The Model T Ford by Stern Launching Your Preschooler by Bernard Rudofsky Behind the Picture Window by Robert Holzman Baseball and its Inventor by Doubay and Hall Several fiction titles are named including Ghost Mountain Guns Town Delaney Roxana Apache Ambush The Thaw The Highway An Episode of Sparrows Nurse With Wings Cape Cod Summer Make-Believe Rainbow and Anderonville among others.
Book review notesAbell based in Europe 1890 1918 interviews with six composers Brahms Puccini Strauss Humperdinck Bruch Grieg on inspiration religion philosophy and genius The Brahms interview before his death reveals soul searching and metaphysical speculations The reviewer credits Abell for the intimate conversations and notes the material reflects late 19th to early 20th century thought with enduring questions about artistic worth and inspiration.
Radio Free Europe and Free Europe Press launch Operation Focus to exploit the Hungarian Communist Party’s vulnerabilities with 12 demands for the National Opposition Movement. Balloon leaflets and round the clock radio broadcasts flood Hungary with news. supporters are urged to donate dollars to fund more broadcasts as the regime resists.
Hollywood reports Gregory Peck plans a Nevada wedding with Veronique Pasegani, following his final divorce decree from Greta Konen Peck. Judge Doyle signed the decree after Peck's affidavit stated no reconciliation occurred during the interlocutory year. Peck, 39, returns to his movie lot January 3.
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