Readable Remembrance of The Duchess of Windsor Memoirs
A critical review finds The Heart Has Its Reasons by the Duchess of Windsor smooth and readable but lacking new insight into the abdication crisis of 1936. It argues the narrative sanitizes conflict, underplays key figures, and fails to justify its romantic framing. Ivy arr.
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Duchess of Windsor
New York
David McKay Co
Baltimore
Great Britain
Ernest Simpson
Church of England
Duke of Windsor
Stanley Baldwin
Ivy Arr
Devotion The Story of Gabrielle
A concise, unsentimental portrait by Catherine Gabrielson of Gabrielle Gabrielson a precocious camp girl who falls ill with hepatitis then cancer and dies after a three month struggle. The book traces a mother’s reflections on beauty and life amid disease and loss.
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Gabrielle Gabrielson
Gabrielle
Light I AM ADAM review by Maxine Kaufman
A New York Knopf first novel featuring Adam Henlein, a twin death aftermath and broken home. The story follows his unhappy college romance and therapy with Dr. Kiraly as he learns to live in reality. The critic notes fine style and promise despite a modest plot and posthumous publication concerns.
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Adam Henlein
Adam
Kiraly
Kaufman
Maxine Ferree
Sink theft drains summer home in Covington burglary
A. G. Wern reported a break in at his Covington summer home. The thief took two refrigerators two mattresses two rifles five tires 12 blankets and the kitchen sink. The incident leaves the property damaged and missing several essential items.
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Covington
A. G. Wern
Met Opera expands reach through national council
The Metropolitan Opera builds a nationwide presence via the National Council of the Met Opera Association founded in 1952 by Mrs. August Belmont and now led by Mrs. Frederick K. Weierhaeuser. COS and Auditions of the Air extend services to regional groups, auditions rise from about 500 to potentially 1,500 per season, and Seattle, Salt Lake City, Tulsa, Chicago, Cleveland, New Orleans, and Minneapolis host trials. The council features over 200 members paying 500 dollars yearly and associates at 250, financing productions like La Perichole for 1956-57.
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W. G. Rogers
Associated Press
New York
Metropolitan Opera
Cosmopolitan Opera
Broadway
39Th
Met
Texas
Virginia
Florida
Michigan
Colorado
Washington
National Council of the Metropolitan Opera Assny
August Belmont
Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser
St. Paul
Oshkosh
Kalamazoo
New Central Opera Service
COS
United States
Council
Marguerite Wickersham
Seattle
Salt Lake City
Tulsa
Chicago
Cleveland
New Orleans
Minneapolis
Offenbach
Space Cat and the Moon Voyage
Review notes two children's books Space Cat by Ruthven Todd and The Bashful Bear by Earle Goodenow. Space Cat follows Flyball the cat and Captain Stone on a moonbound rocket adventure with a near disastrous return and heroism. Bashful Bear depicts a shy young bear in a valley, teased for being small, whose mishap with a bees nest triggers a turning moment.
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Ruthven Todd
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
Moon
Captain Stone
Air Force
Flyball
Earth
Bashful Bear
Earle Goodenow
Chicago
Follett
Little Bear
Detroit Censors Ban Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
The Detroit police censor bureau bans the paperback edition and all copies of John O'Hara's Ten North Frederick citing obscene passages. Random House plans to fight the ban while reviewer Robert Marks defends the novel as a truthful portrayal of life and warns against censorship as dangerous.
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America
Detroit
Police Censor Bureau
Edward S. Piggins
Censor Bureau
Piggins
Ten North Frederick
Random House
Bantam Books
O’hara
Pennsylvania
United States
O'Hara
Piggins’ Sons
North Frederick
Robert , Marks
Frying Pan Bacon Fat Honey Recipe With Old Man Coyote
Lib Gurley praises humorous illustrations featuring a method of cooking with a frying pan bacon fat and honey alongside a character named Old Man Coyote. The art is described as appealing to the whole family.
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Lib Gurley
Best Sellers List and Historical Rail Route Note
A list of top fiction and nonfiction titles appears alongside a note that the first railroad in Michigan's Upper Peninsula linked Marquette and Ishpeming began operation in 1857. The featured works include Peyton Place and Auntie Mame among fiction titles and The Nun's Story and This Halved Ground among nonfictions.
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First
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Marquette
Ishpeming
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Mame
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High Point
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