Macmillan announces spring paperback series and new titles
The Macmillan Co plans Macmillan Paperbacks to launch in March with twelve titles including The Origins of Modern Science by Herbert Butterfield and Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann. A June edition of The Golden Bough will also join the lineup, while The Lands and Peoples volumes survey Brazil and Paraguay Uruguay. Robert Marks notes further publishing moves and biographies in this overview.
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Herbert Butterfield
Walter Lippman
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Francis T. Palgrave
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Brazil
N. P. MacDonald
MacDonald
Paraguay
Uruguay
George Pendle
Spain
Argentina
Dramatic Narrative of a Welsh Strike Era and Murder
A 1926 Welsh mining town tale explores labor strife on the Tawe while a carnival mood clashes with a murder mystery. Miners, a grieving sister, and the despised mine manager Nixon collide as police bungling and intense passions test loyalties and love amid hardship.
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Merchant of Venice as a historical anti-Semitism report
Eileen Mooney argues Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice blends mercenary storytelling with a humanized portrayal of Jews to critique Elizabethan anti Semitism. The piece frames the drama as strong reporting on prejudice, not a merely persuasive play, noting Shylock’s humanity and the courtroom crusade for more Christian unity.
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England
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Shylock
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Elizabeth
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Portia
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Soviet Surprise in Art Ed Berlin Exhibition
In East Berlin under Communist auspices a show titled Contemporary Soviet Art features mostly socialist realism with a single nude painting from 1957 by Vladimir Gavrilov. The exhibit favors simple, nonpolitical subjects, industrial landscapes, and depictions of life with a kinder lyrical tone while omitting Stalin and Khrushchev. Admission remains free though attendance is light.
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Good Intentions FALSE COIN by Harvey Swados
A critical review of the novel Good Intentions FALSE COIN by Harvey Swados. The narrator Ben Warder navigates an idealistic Harmoney Farm project tied to The Age of Light, critiquing distortions in art by society and government while noting the book’s unclear stance and shifting, clumsy execution.
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Mack Sennett Hospitalized With Lung Infection
Hollywood, AP. Mack Sennett, pioneer movie producer of comedies and bathing beauties, was hospitalized Thursday night at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital for a precautionary treatment of a lung infection. He is approaching his 80th birthday.
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Country House
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One Night Of Terror The City That Would Not Die
Review of Richard Collier's book on the May 10 11 1941 London blitz. Collier draws on nearly 600 interviews to recount the raid minute by minute with dramatic photos. The work honors civilian courage and the wartime sacrifice that shaped Britain.
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Film Director Is Divorced in Beverly Hills Split
Los Angeles AP Katherine Reddish daughter of Norma Shearer divorced film director Jack N Reddish. She called him mean and bad tempered and said he expected support. She waives alimony and keeps their Beverly Hills home valued at 60 000. Her father was Irving Thalberg. Reddish age 32 is a former ski champion. They have no children.
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German exchange student and OSU official meet at Rotary
At a Rotary Club dinner in Stillwater Oklahoma State University exchange student Peter Scheck from Stuttgart Germany and Abe Hesser union director converse about Scheck’s home and wartime service. Scheck recalls his Stuttgart bombardier past and Hesser notes his anti aircraft gunnery role there.
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Customer tries on coat. thief breaks in after hours
In St. Louis a man who tried a size 42 topcoat was told it was too large by tailor Hyman Frank. He kicked out a display window, fled wearing the coat, then returned after closing to break into the shop, leaving the overcoat and taking a size 40 topcoat and a size 38 suit. The tailor warned the man would likely return for the 40.
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Home Of Brave Enough Good Men Novel Review
Charles Mercer’s fifth novel Home Of Brave Enough Good Men is set around the American Revolutionary era with figures like Washington and Hamilton referenced. The sprawling epic follows Micah Heath and siblings, trials, love, battles, and smuggling, painting a panoramic historical tale drawn from past voices and aiming for strong character drama.
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Anthony Wayne
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Twillow
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Alleghenies
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Kathy
Alex March
Minna
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Reading list of notable fiction and nonfiction titles
A catalog of varied books includes Advise and Consent by Drury Hawati, The War Lover by Hersey, Dear and Glorious Physician by Lederer, The Darkness and the Dawn by Costain, Act One by Hart, This is My God by Wouk, The Status Seekers by Packard, Folk Medicine by Jarvis, The Armada by Mattingly.
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Hersey
Lederer
Costain
Hart
Wouk
Packard
Jarvis
Mattingly
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