The Taste of Courage. The War 1939 1945 reviewed
Desmond Flower and James Reeves present a documentary compiled account of World War II drawing from letters and diaries of participants and eyewitnesses. The book covers both frontline and home front experiences, highlighting shared suffering, atrocities, and kindness on both sides.
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Desmond Flower
James Reeves
Harper
Flower
Reeves
Adolf Hitler
Poland
Neville Chamberlain
Nazi Germany
Winston Churchill
Dunkirk
Franklin Roosevelt
Congress
America
Pearl Harbor
Delight Memoir of Spring by Elick Moll
A memoir style tale of childhood in Brooklyn seen through a boy’s wide eyes. The Hollywood frame follows a successful film writer returning to memories of his Jewish years and neighborhood while his wife helps purge artifacts. Moll narrates with relaxed candor and affectionate detail.
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Sally
Mike
Grace
Brooklyn
Mr. Hovick
Phil
Rose
Leon
Macy
Miriam
Sussman
Moll
Seidman
Adventure On Riverbank In Hunter's Hideout
Faye Marks reviews Mebane Holoman Burgwyn’s Hunters Hideout set on an Occoneechee Neck farm. Two brothers skip school for a riverbank adventure that spirals into danger including a lunatic, a robbery and a suspected murder, with growth and coming of age themes.
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Hunter
Mebane Holoman
Cal
North Carolina
Occonee
Chee Neck
The Split-Level Trap Suburbia and the Big City Life
Reviewer W G Rogers critiques the Gordons and Gunther book on suburban stress. The work samples eight Bergen County case histories showing fraying marriages, jealousy, and ulcers in a mobile world near New York. Cures number nine but the reader remains skeptical of the case history approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suburbia
Gordons
Disturbia
Irvington‘on-the-Scarsdale
Broadway
Men On Way To War RESPITE
Winter 1940 in Banitsa near Athens sees army officers on a brief pause. The conscientious Lieutenant pursues Stefania while the Second Lieutenant flirts, and the romance tests duty versus desire in this compact wartime drama.
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Banitsa
Athens
Little Duck
Stefania Popka
Stefania
Solos
Burglary Opens Safe at Tuscaloosa Drug Store
In Tuscaloosa Alabama a burglar pried open a bakery safe left at C I Drug Store after a trial period and found nothing inside. The safe had remained unopened for over three years because an expert would charge $50 to unlock it.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Scholarship Award To Gable at Jacksonville State
Clark Gable recipients not the film star but the son of Mr and Mrs Lester Gable of Birmingham Alabama has been awarded a 100 dollar scholarship at Jacksonville State College.
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Jacksonville
Ala
Clark Gable
Jacksonville State College
Lester Gable
Birmingham
Reading list among 1960s era fiction and nonfic
The note lists novels and nonfiction titles including Advise and Consent by Allen Drury. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The Dean's Watch by Norman Goodge. Decision at Delphi by Hammond Innes. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer. The Waste Makers by Vance Packard. Born Free by Joy Adamson. Baruch the Public Years. and Vanity Fair in an edited edition by Amory and Bradlee.
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Hawaii
Michener
Goodge
Mockingbird
Lee
Delphi
Mac Innes
Shirer
Waste Makers
Packard
Adamson
Baruch
Vanity Fair
Amory & Bradlee
Casanova Memoirs Sixth Machen Translation Review
Joe Wing reviews the sixth and final Machen translation of Casanova’s memoirs. The piece notes Casanova’s multilingual learning, wild fortune making and losing, and colorful circle of royalty, jail breaks, and lovers. It praises the readable style despite a flawed French base text and highlights the book’s historical scope up to 1773.
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Jacques Casanova DE Seingalt
Arthur Machem
Putnam
Casanova
Voltaire
Joe Wing
Indian Problem Seattle
Mrs. Carol Parry a Sioux worker at the Seattle Indian Center complains about TV westerns. She says the Redskins are often portrayed as the villains and shares how her 3 year old son imitates their gunplay shouting bang bang I’m killing Indians causing embarrassment with visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Carol Parry
Redskins
Bull Escapes, Damage At Warsaw Airport
A 1,100-pound bull broke from a pasture at Warsaw Community Airport and rammed a parked red airplane causing about 500 dollars in damage. The incident was reported in Warsaw, Indiana.
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Warsaw
Ind
Judge Fines Wife on Jaywalking Ticket
Marion County judge M Walter Bell told his bailiff to fix a broken fountain pen but not the ticket his wife received for jaywalking. The incident ended with a fine paid by the judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
M. Walter Bell
Marion County Superior Court
Notable Nonfiction Books From 1960 A Look Back
Neal Austin surveys influential nonfiction of 1960, highlighting Kennedy's Strategy of Peace, Packard's Waste Makers, Fortune editors Markets of the Sixties, Brown's Effective Workplace Management, Dobie's I ll Tell You A Tale, Wechsler s Reflections of an Angry Middle Editor, and Priestley s Literature and Western Man, among others.
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John F. Kennedy
Vance Packard
Packard
Fortune Magazine
Milon Brown
J. Frank Dobie
Dobie
James Wechsler
The
New York Post
Wechsler
J. B. Priestley
Priestley
Europe
Neal Austin
Two Grandmothers Contrast in Diana Holman-Hunt Memoir
Diana Holman-Hunt recalls her grandmothers during World War I era. One was a luxe widow with servants. the other frugal, protective, living among art treasures from William Holman Hunt. The author chronicles family contrasts, wartime England, and a lively, charming reminiscence.
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England
William Holman-Hunt
Edith
Diana
Grand H H
Melbury Road
Helen
Percy
India
High Point Public Library Bookmobile Schedule Week of Jan 16
The bookmobile will visit listed streets and intersections each weekday from Monday to Friday with six to five daily stops. Times run 9:30 to 4:45 PM, visiting Greenwood Westover Winston Pine Oak Bridges Beaucrest Johnson Parkside Tabor E Lexington Manor Lindale Norriss St Johns Gordon Kimrey Cedrow Barbee W College Woodrow Blain Terrell Francis Moore Charles Lansine Springfield Wise Friddle Austin Wesley Place E Russell.
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High Point Public Library
Greenwood Avenue
Westover Drive
Winston Road
Oakview Road
Pine Valley Road
Marywood
Woodview
Bridges
Futrelle
Beaucrest Road
Welch
Gordon
Kimrey
Cedrow
Arlington
Barbee
Fifth
W. College
North
Woodrow
Forrest
Blain
Forriss
Terrell
Kimmons
Francis
Moore
Charles
Lansine
Springfield
Wise
Friddle
Austin
Wesley Place
E. Russell
Solve-A-Crime Solution Overview
The text argues that if the accident had followed Pete Barlage’s account Taylor’s body would have land toward the truck’s front when brakes jammed rather than onto the road behind.
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Pete Barlage
Taylor
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Romon
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Gable
E. Washington St
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Norton
Perpetual Savings & Loan Association
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