Book Controversy and Aircraft Crashes Highlight 1960s Russia and US
Novy Mir’s 95 000 copy issue of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch sold out amid debate on Khrushchev era freedom. In the US Praeger and Dutton publish translations with notable editors and translators. Separately the Electra crash saga, solved by whirl mode research, reduced public fear after six crashes and industry investigations.
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Novy Mir
Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitaya
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
United States
Frederick A. Praeger
Praeger
Max Hayward
Ronald Hingley
Oxford University
Hayward
Leopold Labedz
Survey
E. P. Dutton
Dutton
Ralph Parker
Robert J. Serling
Doubleday
Civil Aeronautics Board
Federal Aviation Agency
Short Stories Call Out the Malicia
John Anthony West’s collection of 10 tales mixes offbeat narratives with abrupt endings. Vignettes include a painter in What Exactly Do You Mean by Cheese and a creepy Georgia town in Town of chanc eville. One fantasy The Fiesta at Managuay falls flat while other pieces echo harsh reality in Your Education Is Fine But Where’s Your Experience. The collection shows promise despite uneven execution.
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West
Chanceyville
Georgia
Moonhowlers’ Isle
Managuay
George
Gladys
Gregory
Conflict Christ Communism and the Clock
A promotional blurb reviews G Ray Jordan's book Conflict Christ Communism and the Clock praising its Christian defense against Marxist ideas. It notes the author’s world travels and urges readers to seek God and Christlike living, warning nominal Christianity will not withstand Communist aggression.
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G. Ray Jordan
Warner Press
Dr. G. Ray Jordan
Dr. Jordan
C. Excelle Rozzelle
High Point Public Library Bookmobile Schedule Week of Jan 21 25
The schedule lists daily stops for the bookmobile from Monday to Friday at various locations in High Point. Each day features multiple time slots from 9:30 to 4:45 with locations including College Village Shopping Center Pine Valley Road Marywood and more.
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High Point Public Library
College Village
Pine Valley Road
Marywood
Oak View Road
Woodview
Bridges Street
Futrelle
Kennedy
Carr
Rotary
Westwood
Otteray
Rockspring Road
Eaton Place
Brantley Circle
W. Farris
Hedrick
Ashe
English Street
Oakwood
Ridgecrest
W. Springfield
Dame
Wynnewood
Rockford Road
Ragan Street
Thissell Street
Franklin Street
Worth Avenue
Clara Cox Circle
Willard Street
Gordon Street
Elwood Street
Wendell Street
Hemingway In Paris That Summer in Paris
Morley Callaghan recounts the 1929 Paris literary scene with Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald as central figures. The Canadian novelist profiles cafes, Pound, McAlmon, Lewis, Anderson, and Maxwell Perkins, reflecting on a vibrant era of American writers in 1920s Paris.
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Paris
Morley Callaghan
Coward McCann
Callaghan
Ernest Hemingway
Scott Fitzgerald
Ezra Pound
Robert McAlmon
Sinclair Lewis
Sherwood Anderson
Maxwell Perkins
Hemingway
Toronto
Fitzgerald
Nobel Prize Critics See Flaws in Its Narrow Reach
Los Angeles AP recaps Irving Wallace view that Nobel prizes are dated biased and limited. He spent years researching The Prize and argues for additions in social sciences arts and innovation while noting notable judges and winners. He critiques anti American bias and lauds some laureates as deserving though human.
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Los Angeles
Irving Wallace
Wallace
Sweden
Alfred Nobel
Paris
Bertha Kinsky von Suttner
Nobel
Wall Street
Sigmund Freud
Thomas Edison
Wright Brothers
Swedish Academy
Anders Osterling
Academy
Pearl Buck
Ivan
Bunin
Russia
Tolstedn
Gorki
Chekov
Osterling
Thomas Wolfe
Somerset Maugham
James Joyce
Robert Frost
Upton Sinclair
Theodore Dreiser
Boris) Pasternak
Lev Landau
United Nations
Hendrik
Isben
Johan August Strindberg
Strindberg
Marie Curie
Pierre
Albert Einstein
Marconi
Ivan Pavlov
Kipling
Yeats
Anatole France
Bertrand Russell
Ernest Hemingway
Ralph Bunche
Albert Schweitzer
Fights Back Fights Back HOW TO COPE WITH
Merrill Pollack offers a brassy humor filled guide for households facing modern business irritants. The book targets dunning letters billing abuse telemarketers and difficult service staff with sharp counterattacks. It treats defeating bill collectors and credit managers as a central theme while offering broader coping strategies.
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Pollack
Opera through ages and pitch wonders in music notes
The notes explore opera origins from ancient Athens to modern Italy and note the slow evolution of the art form. It discusses absolute pitch, its distribution among genders, and profiles musicians like Joseph Hoffmann and Percy Grainger. It also lists participants in a local radio tribute to Virginia Frank.
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Greece
Athens
Italy
Virginia Frank
Dean B. Pruette
Sarah Bencini
Troy Lee
Howard Coble
High Point Singers Guild
Virginia Person
Jake Froelich
Elusive Krishna Menon portrait by Emil Lengyel
Lengyel offers a critical portrait of V. K. Krishna Menon, tracing his Indian and international roles, the mix of East and West in his character, and the book’s uneven, sometimes journalistic style. The analysis questions Menon’s lasting impact and Nehru era significance.
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India
Krishna Menon
Menon
Vengalili Krishnan Krishna Menon
Emil Lengyel
Lengyel
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Drury
Genius
Dennis
Porter
Charley
Steinbeck
Carson
Schulz
Hudson
Earth
Twain
John Anthony West
Nashville
Tenn
Harper J. Sasser
Eternal Fire
Calder Willingham
Vanguard
Laurie Mae Lytle
Laurie Mae
Randolph Sudderland Shepherdson III
Judge Bell
Randolph
Harry Diadem
Harry
White Gallady
Poppie
Logy
Walt Disney
Pablo Picasso
Charles Chaplin
Igor Stravinsky
Galina Ulanova
Stockholm
Thomas Mann
Palestine
Joseph
Sigrid Undset
Authors’ League
Fridtjof Nansen
Soviet
Cowinner
Howard C. Heyn
Merrill Pollack
Bobbs Merrill
Wagner
Tchaikovsky
Berlioz
Debussy
Ravel
Joseph Hoffman
Michel Doorsky
Percy Grainger
Grieg
Percy Aldrige
New York
Walker and Co
V. K. Krishna Menon
Nehru
New Delhi
Kerala
Annie Besant
England
St. Pancras
Harold Laski
India League
Marx
Gandhi
Bloomsbury
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