Education Of The Shiftless On Driver Training In Schools
Dick Bicker ton argues that driver training deserves high status in high schools and colleges. He cites experts, references Browning and Wells, warns of fears about automatic transmissions, and asserts education and leisure together forge wisdom, urging reform in how driving education is taught.
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G.B.S
Barbara
National Education Association
Norman Key
Citadel of Education
Browning
Herbert George Wells
Milton
Orpheus
Dad
Mark Twain
Dick Bicker
TON
Waiting Diamond Head by Peter Gilman
A Hawaii set novel about Senator Howland running for Delegate to Washington before statehood as four children complicate his bid. Themes include prejudice, labor disputes, and political infighting against a looming volcano. The Hawaii locale brings history geology and local jargon as Gilman moralizes in florid style, with a 1961 movie adaptation anticipated.
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Diamond Head
Peter Gilman
Coward McCann
Hawaii
Sen. Howland
Washington
Ward
Aaron
Sloan
Garth
Gilman
Hollywood
W. G. Rogers
Tchaikovsky nerves mark debut as conductor in book review
In a book review by Robert Marks, Briggs biography The Collectors Tchaikovsky and the Five highlights Tchaikovsky's debut conducting nerves as he held his left hand to his chin while leading with the baton in his right. The work surveys six Russian composers, giving most attention to Tchaikovsky and detailing recordings and scholarly context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tchaikovsky
Laroche
Moscow
John Briggs
J. B. Lippincott Co
New York Times
Briggs
Balakirev
Borodin
Cui
Mussorgsky
Rimsky-Korsakoff
Lippincott
Curtis Institute of Music
Philadelphia
New York Post
Pacific
The
Etude
Times
J. Gurney Briggs
Johnson St
Here
Froth And Fun THE UPWARD GLIDE. By Van Jefferies
A witty novel in which John Craig, urged by his wealthy father to work and pay his own way, rebels and gambles away 500 pounds. He meets Barbara, daughter of a rigid patriarch, and the plot probes ambition, convention, and escape from expectation in Edwardian England.
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van Jefferies
Harper
John Craig
Craig
England
Gobbo
Barbara
John
MED Best Sellers list and notable titles
A compact listing of fiction and non fiction best sellers. Featured works include Advise and Consent by Drury and The Leopard by di Lampedusa alongside The Trustee from the Toolroom by Shute and The Affair by Snow. Nonfiction titles include May This House Be Safe from Tigers by King and Folk Medicine by Jarvis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drury
Hawatis, Michener
the Leopard
di Lampedu
King
Paar
Jarvis
Adamson
Kennedy
Breakwater opening line foreshadows tragedy on Coney Island
In George Mandel's Island Breakwater set in 1930s Coney Island, Zale's death caps a tale of raw nerves and thwarted desire among a cast including Nannie, Paul, Marcia, Jes sie, Lyn, Zara, and Cum ber the Irishman. The critic notes Mandel's intense, lingering prose and a feverish atmosphere that outlasts his earlier Greenwich Village work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Mandel
Holt, Rinehart &Winston
Zale
Coney Island
Nannie
Paul
Fishie
Marcia
Jessie
Lyn
Daniel
Zara
Kings
Otto
Bull
Cumber
Delight
Hitler
Stalin
Mandel
Greenwich Village
Puzzle Solution Notes on Radio Free Europe Jamming
The Communists use from 1500 to 2500 jamming transmitters trying to block Radio Free Europe truth broadcasts to captive people under Soviet domination. In spite of jamming attempts Radio Free Europe gets through 90 percent of the time.
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Radio Free Europe
Windmills in Brooklyn by Prudencie de Pereda
A reader notes a two part Spanish tale translated to New York’s Brooklyn about Grandfather Agapito cigar sales, Manolin the dancer, and a witty widow. It contrasts simple profits with humane moments, ending with a tender, quiet sequence as life and death unfold.
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Brooklyn
Prudencie de Pereda Athen
de Pereda
la Mancha
New York
Agapito
Manolin
Havana
Grandfather
Solve A Crime Solution Hinting at a double game and dope links
The text suggests Ferris hid in the dark room to ambush the watcher and push you to handle the watchman, implying a plan to dispose of incriminating dope and ties to a dope ring. It then shifts to praising Radio Free Europe and its broad audience behind the Iron Curtain.
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Ferris
Radio Free Europe
Challenge Of Co Existence The Great Contest Russia and the West
Isaac Deutscher argues peaceful coexistence is the West’s test to prove superior efficiency without armaments. He notes Soviet goals, Western dependence on growth, and the impact on underdeveloped nations watching Moscow’s rise. He cites Khrushchev’s revised Marxism promising a peaceful transition to power with reduced immediate risk for successors.
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Russia
West
Isaac
Isaac Deutscher
Deutscher
Canada
Moscow
Khrushchev
Civil War Books Loom Large in Spring Nonfiction
Philip Van Doren Stern surveys new Civil War titles led by Confederate area memoirs. Highlights include The Haskell Memoirs by John Haskell, Bedford Forrest biography by Andrew Lytle with new intro, and Rembert W. Patrick’s The Fall of Richmond. Also covered are Hancock the Superb by Glenn Tucker and reissues of The Great Invasion and Caucuses of 1860, plus Lincoln related works and a critique of a poor quickie paperback edition of Southern History of the War.
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Philip van Doren Stern
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Haskell
Putnam
John Haskell
Northern Virginia
Appomattox
Andrew Lytle
Bedford Forrest
McDowell
Obolensky
Rembert W. Patrick
Richmond
Louisiana State University Press
Glenn Tucker
Gettysburg
Us Hancock
Bobbs-Merrill
Yoseloff
Jacob Hoke
Chambersburg
Lincoln
Murat Halstead
Louisiana State Univ. Press
Washington
Victor Searcher
Winston
Elmer Ellsworth
Ruth Randall
Little, Brown
Edward A. Pollard
Ruthie and Royie a Midlife Comedy in St Paul to Chicago
Ruthie and Royie live in St Paul with three children and learn of a Boston friend's death. They plan a Chicago visit where Ruthie becomes entangled in an affair involving Ethelyn, Roy, and the Chicago circle. The tale blends humor with a sharp look at marriage and friendship. The piece also notes the volume of news stories about American affairs teletyped to Radio Free Europe.
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Ruthie
Rita Eng
Simon & Schuster
Roy
St. Paul
Mary Louise
Boston
Chicago
Ethelyn
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Rere
Doubleday Anchor Books
Doubleday
Wesleyan University Press
Columbus
Ohio
Robert Marks
Froth
Washington ST
Shute
Snow
High Point
Browns Shoe Repair
New +ark
Munich
Germany
Party
Gay and New
Pine Street
Heston
Andy Prolecelanais
Carolina Tri-City Termite CO
C. G. Bedford
N. Wrenn
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