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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1955
Page
18
A wartime tale set around World War I and its shadows on lives in Australia and England. Alan Duncan returns home to Australia and revisits a maid’s overdose death to uncover her past and connect it to the war’s toll. The novel blends sheep ranch life with wartime memory and personal tragedy.
Book review of Calvin Hoffman’s The Murder of the Man Who Was Shakespeare. It presents a theory that Christopher Marlowe faked his death in 1593 and inspired Shakespeare, with arguments about sonnets, plays, and the Walssingham connection. The review finds Hoffman's case readable and plausible for readers fond of Shakespeare hoax theories.
A man at a soda fountain laments modern goods and plastics, claiming home made ice cream was the coldest and weather once froze germs away. He riffs on gasoline, clothing, shoes, machinery, women, and a looming desert future, then grimly jokes about aging joints and fatigue.
Care Mission Laos chief Oden Meeker wins the 1954 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Report on Africa published by Scribner's. Prize is $1,000, announced by Henry Pratt Fairchild. Meeker, Princeton graduate and former Herald Tribune staffer, directs CARE work in Laos.
Frederick Cross 33 pleads guilty to stabbing Donald Lainton 28 in a public house and explains his motive after his wife left him. He requests the death penalty and the court orders execution by hanging.
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