Publishing pairs Lippincott with Britannica Press for new lines
J B Lippincott Co of Philadelphia teams with Britannica Press to launch two book series the Kingston House Lippincott imprint for popular titles and Britannica Press Lippincott for handsome design books The first Kingston House title THE BEST OF ALL COOK BOOK edited by Florence Brobeck will publish Feb 17 The Library of Great American Writing edited by Louis Untermeyer will follow later this year World Publishing Co becomes exclusive distributor for Skira art titles in the US Canada and the Philippines with access to the full Skira list and future titles The piece also previews F Van Wyck Mason s Col Hugh North SECRET MISSION TO BANGKOK an action packed novel set in Hong Kong with themes of espionage and danger
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J. B. Lippincott Co
Philadelphia
Britannica Press
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc
Kingston House-Lippincott
Britannica Press- Lippincott Books
Florence Brobeck
Lippincott
Library OF Great American Writing
Louis Untermeyer
World Publishing Co
Skira
United States
Canada
Philippines
Peter E. Field
Skira Inc
New York
Albert Skira
Geneva
Hong Kong
Col
Hugh North
Col. North
Bangkok
F. van Wyck Mason
Mason
Robert Marks
Peale's Positive Thinking Sequel in Sharp Critique
Dick Bickerton reviews Norman Vincent Peale’s The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking, arguing the sequel piles clichés and slogans, buffers his business ethic with celebrity endorsements, and offers a skim of anecdotes that substitute depth with formulaic optimism. The piece questions whether the new work truly delivers insight or mere panacea.
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Norama
Vincent Peale
Prentice-Hall
Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Mailer
Madison Avenue
Peale
Rexall Drugs
Dick Bickerton
Brazen Chariots Tank War in Western Desert by Crisp
Book review recounts Tank War Brazen Chariots by Robert Crisp detailing Western Desert tank combat. It notes M3 Stuart use against Mark IIIs and IVs, Command changes, and Crisp’s air of bravado and partial clarity while earning the DSO.
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Western Desert
Robert Crisp
Norton
Wavell
Auchinleck
Crisp
Rommel
When Grant Took Command
Bruce Catton highlights Ulysses S. Grant’s formative years from Illinois militia command to Vicksburg victor. The book emphasizes Grant as a rare personality and the lessons he learned early in the Civil War, including striking first and not underestimating the enemy.
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Grant
Illinois Volunteers
Vicksburg
Bruce Catton
Solve-A-Crime Solution Reveals Lillian Brennan Suspect
The passage argues Jerry Padgett's business partner was either Margie Collins or Rita Parker, but since the partner was single it concludes Margie Collins. It then claims Rita Parker and the killer were married, so neither Rita nor Margie could be the murderer, identifying Lillian Brennan as the guilty girl.
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Jerry Padgett
Lillian Brennan
Margie Collins
Rita Parker
Padgett
Rita
Margie
Humor Forgets LOOK TO YOUR GEESE and Other Notes
Book listing review by W. G. Rogers discusses Humor Forgets LOOK TO YOUR GEESE by Jacquin Sanders and LOVE ON A BRANCH LINE by John Hadfield with mixed praise. The critique compares Sand strains to horseplay and Hadfield to whimsy, noting satirical and sensational passages and mocking criticism from fictional figures within the text.
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Jacquin Sanders
Putnam
John Hadfield
Little, Brown
Rocket Riding Telescope Scans Stars From White Sands
Navy scientist Dr. Herbert Friedman reports a rocket launched from White Sands New Mexico reached 88 miles on November 17 using an Aerobee rocket. A four inch mirror telescope aboard transmitted ultraviolet images by radio as it spun to scan the sky, aiming for accurate measurements of star luminosity and temperature to study interstellar gas and dust.
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Navy
Herbert Friedman
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
White Sands
N.M
Nique
American Assn. of Physics
New York
Our Writings Literature and the American Tradition
Leon Howard surveys American writing from Puritan diaries to modern authors like Faulkner Hemingway Frost Williams and Stevens He links novels to the Declaration of Independence and argues for a tacit personal creative power in a freewheeling independent tradition He notes strengths and potential weaknesses in the cultural pattern reflected by writers from Poe Whitman to West Jewett Dickinson and Melville.
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Howard
Poe
Whitman
Faulkner
Nathanael West
Sarah Orne Jewett
Emily Dickinson
Melville
Father Bruckberger
Best Sellers List Highlights Fiction and Nonfiction
A compact catalog shows notable titles including Advise and Consent by Drury Hawaii and Exodus by Uris. Other featured works include Poor No More by Roark Dear and Glorious Physician Caldwell and The Armada Mattingly This Is My God Wouk among noted best sellers.
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Hawaii
Michener
Poor NO More
Roark
Caldwell
Exodus
Uris
Hart
Jarvis
the Armada
Mattingly
Ryan
God
Wouk
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