Best Sellers Last Week Top Fiction and Nonfiction List
The list shows fiction titles including Seven Days in May by Knebel and Bailey, Fail-Safe by Burdick and Wheeler, A Shade of Difference by Drury, Ship of Fools by Porter, One Hundred Dollar Mistake by Grover, and nonfiction Travels with Charley by Steinbeck, Silent Spring by Carson, The Points of My Compass by White, Renoir My Father by Jean Renoir, and Happiness is a Warm Puppy by Schulz.
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Knebel and Bailey
Burdick and
Wheeler
Drury
Porter
Grover
Charley
Steinbeck
Carson
Renoir
Jean Renoir
Schulz
National Book Awards contenders named by judges
Twenty four books appear as leading contenders across fiction non fiction and poetry for the 14th annual National Book Awards with winners to be announced March 12 at the Americana Hotel New York City The principal speaker will be Robert Oppenheimer director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton New Jersey.
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Rolfe Humphries
Henry Rage
Reea Whittemore
Robert Creeley
Drawbridge
Donald F. Drummond
Robert Frost
Kenneth Koch
Howard Nemerov
Anne Sexton
Winfield Townley Scott
William Stafford
Brueghel
William Carlos Williams
Americana Hotel
New York City
Robert Oppenheimer
Institute For Advanced Study
Princeton, N. J
Tulane University
New Orleans
Gilbert Chase
Inter-American Music Council
Newcomb College
Tulane
Still Vigorous HONEY AND SALT by Carl Sandburg review
A review of Carl Sandburg's volume Still Vigorous Honey and Salt issued by Brace at $4.75. The critic notes Sandburg remains vigorous though octogenarian, echoes of World War I Chicago Poems, lyrical treatment of love, nature, and religious imagery, with a sober wisdom on the nuclear age.
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Carl Sandburg
Harcourt, Brace
Sandburg
Chicago
Corn Shock
Sycamore
America
Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson reviewed
The book aims as a guided tour of Britain’s power rooms politics finance and industry through conversations with about 200 leaders. It covers schools universities church press TV science law and aristocracy, omits doctors and health, and delivers fluent entertaining prose but feels excessive and lacks depth in places.
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Britain
Anthony Sampson
New York
Harper & Row
Sampson
Pendennis
London
Observer
Music notes on Sampson critique and arts education
A review discusses Sampson's book on Britain’s civil service and big business, noting its fresh reporting yet dated establishment tone. It also treats music as leisure's noblest pursuit and highlights upcoming events at Central High School, Tulane's Inter-American Institute, and careers for Dello Joio Mennin.
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Whitehall
Rolls-Royce
Britain
America
Russia
Sampson
Times
Return To A Native Land Reunions In Moscow Review
Merle Fainsod reviews Markovsha Fischer’s account of returning to Moscow after over two decades. The book follows her reconnection with old friends, changes in society, and the mood of Muscovites while noting gaps in intellectual life and everyday life details. Fischer’s impressions mix warmth with concern about parochial patriotism and Western misunderstandings.
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Markovsha Fischer
Moscow
Fischer
Merle Fainsod
Man of Peace Servant of Peace Hammarskjold Book Review
A Harper & Row edition collects speeches and statements of Dag Hammarskjold edited by Wilder Foote. It portrays the Swedish diplomat as a private public servant shaping the United Nations, blending European civil service steadiness with American professional focus, and highlighting his belief that the private man should fade as the international official rises.
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Dag Hammarskjold
Wilder Foote
Harper & Row
United Nations
Hammarskjold
U. N. Press and
Trygvye Lie
New York
U. N
Man Against Fate in a West Africa Colonial Tale
Bryn Griffin’s fourth novel, Man Against Fate, follows Lt Col Honore Landerset in Sebangerisque, a French colonial holdover with secret independence schemes. An American girl Davina Schellmann enters a dangerous bush trek as natives attack, testing fate against a stubborn military mind.
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Griffin
West Africa
Algiers
Paris
Honore Landerset
Landerset
Davina Schellmann
Fate
Sanderset
Africa
The Politics of Hope by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Book review surveys 20 essays from 1950 to 1960 by the liberal historian and Kennedy aide. It covers American history politics and culture with notes on liberalism leadership and the role of intellects in public life.
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HOPE
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
Houghton Mifflin
Kennedy
Emerson
Party of Conservatism
Party of Innovation
Schlesinger
Washington
Reinhold Niebuhr
Walter Lippmann
Bernard DeVoto
Iron Curtain
High Point Public Library Bookmobile Schedule Week
The bookmobile will operate Monday with stops at College Village Shopping Center Emery Road at Hillcrest Overbrook at Emerywood and Gatewood Council. Friday repeats morning College Village Shopping Center and Brentwood Lowe Friddle Street Austin Street Wesley Place E Russell. No service Tuesday through Thursday.
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High Point Public Library
College Village
Council
Gatewood
Emery Road
Hillcrest
Overbrook
Emerywood
Brentwood
Lowe
Friddle Street
Austin Street
Wesley Place
E. Russell Street
Hal Holbrook to play Abe Lincoln in Illinois at Phoenix Theater
Hal Holbrook, famed for Mark Twain, takes the title role in Robert Sherwood’s Abe Lincoln in Illinois as part of the Phoenix Theater repertory. The shift from Twain to Lincoln shows his growing versatility after a season of Shakespearean roles last summer.
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New York
Hal Holbrook
Mark Twain
Abe Lincoln
Illinois
Robert Sherwood
Phoenix Theater
Holbrook
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