Suburban Democracy Under Fire and Fiction
A reviewer examines Wood’s The Politics of Suburbia arguing size and democracy clash in rising suburbs. The piece contrasts suburbia’s comforts with its flaws and surveys Jones’s From Here to Eternity and related reflections on wartime life and literary scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Jones
Suburbia
Scribner
Robert C. Wood
Houghton Mifflin
Wood
New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
Boston
Pittsburgh
Lincoln
Mass
M.I.T
Boston Symphony
Jones
W. G. Rogers
Memoirs and Novels Referenced in Frank Observations
A list of literary and media titles includes monuments from America and abroad such as Montgomerys memoirs and classic novels. Names like Heyerdahl and Nabokov appear alongside works that span war history and travel narratives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Golden
Heyerdahl
Wedemeyer
the Viscount Montgomery OF
Alamein
Black Sheep
Boyington
The Intruder by Charles Beaumont book review
A Southern town reluctantly absorbs school integration as Adam Kramer’s charismatic rabble-rouser stirs passions. The cast includes a backwoods preacher, an invalid heir, a reforming prostitute, a naive teen, and an extreme aged zealot. Beaumont’s strength lies in plot and moral clarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Kramer
Caxton
Beaumont
Sea Tale Mutiny Novel by Frank Tilsely
A historical sea tale set in 1796 during Napoleon's European upheaval follows the 38 gun frigate Regenerate. Mutiny plots unfold as Capt Crawford and Lt Paget clash, amid Mediterranean campaigns, brutal discipline, and looming naval dangers with romance and peril aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
England
Wizard
Evans
Stanhope
Crawford
Scott Paget
Mediterranean
Armstrong Sings Gospel On Louis and the Good Book
AP reviews Louis Armstrong's Decca album Louis and the Good Book, praising his gospel fidelity and bluesy hold on spirituals like Swing Low Sweet Chariot. Sy Oliver leads a strong choir and orchestra aiding Armstrong while occasional bop talk blurs some tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Armstrong
Louis
Decca
Armstrong
The
Riverside
Armatrong
Sy Oliver
Mahalia Jackson
Columbia
Little Jesus Boy
Mahalia
New
Stamps Announce San Martin as Fourth Champion of Liberty
United States issues a 4 cent stamp honoring Jose de San Martin "Hero of the Andes" as the fourth Champion of Liberty. The 4c stamp features a three quarter portrait medallion from Library of Congress prints, with a blue center, red blue and gold accents, and a torch between leaves. First day covers are requested via Washington DC, with denotation on the envelope. Luxembourg issues commemoratives for H R H Grand Duchess Charlotte with portraits and royal dates. Cairo University marks its golden jubilee with a 10 mills stamp, and Afro Asian Economic Conference release follows. Minkus Publications presents loose leaf albums for Ireland and Cambodia Laos Viet Nam. West Germany issues a 20 pfennig stamp for Cardinal Nicholas Cusanas’s 500th anniversary, depicting St Nicholas.
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Jose de San Martin
Andes
United Sates
Washington, D. C
San Martin
Library of Congress
Liberty
Ramon Magsaysay
Simon Bolivar
Lajos Kossuth
Washington 13
D. C
Luxembourg
Charlotte
United Arab Republic
Cairo University
Cairo
Minkus Publications
Ireland
Cambodia
Laos
Viet-Nam
Viet - Nam
Erosion In Every War But One
A study of prisoner collaboration in the Korean War reveals alarming rates of disloyal conduct among American POWs. Eugene Kinkead analyzes how 13 percent showed serious collaboration and about 30 percent engaged in some form of collaboration, prompting calls for a prison conduct code and broader social reflection for America in 1959.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Kinkead
Norton
Department of the Army
Kinkead
America
New York Photographer Pioneers Sharp Fashion Album Covers
Charles Varon of New York City leads a new wave of photographers blending bold color and high contrast techniques for record album covers. He collaborates with models and art directors, experiments with film speed, lighting, and props, and seeks a clear no grain fashion image as a future trend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Varon
New York City
Times Square
Varon
Richard Avedon
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Bien
DR. Zhivago
Pasternak
Lolita
Nabokov
Auntie Mame
Dennis
Terrace
O'Hara
Erer and
Burdick
Charles Beaumont
Putnam
Sea Tale
Frank Tilsely
Satchmo
Hugh Mulligan
Warner Bros
Newark
N. J
RCA Victor
Perry Como
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Star Chorale
Capitol
Dana Andrews
Epic
Dickson Hall
Frank Raye Singers
Gustave Dore
Dore
Andrews
AP News
Syd Kronish
Western
Germany
Nicholas Cusanas
St. Nichoas Hospital
St. Nicholas
Vnee
Cee
By Irving Desfor
AP Newsfeatures
Gilbert E. Marsh
Vine Street
Television Sales and Service
N. Main ST
Tel
Warner’s Transfer & Storage
Thomasville
Atlantic Savings and Loan Association
Main Street
High Point
N. C
Atlantic Savings Carillon
Vic
Greensboro Road
Straughan's Booksellers
Greensboro
North Carolina
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